# US charity's Web site hacked

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/23/us-charity039s-web-site-hacked/
- Published: 2001-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Brazilian “web terrorists” have hacked into the Web site of the US Parkinson’s 
Disease Foundation and defaced it.

 

 

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Read [A hack too far: Charity site defaced – experts fear epidemic](http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=985330469&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=43433&REQSTR1=newsnow)
by Chris Holbrook at Silicon.com. Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of other attacks
on charities’ Web sites.

 

 

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