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Hacker blocks access to state Legislature Internet page

03/14/2000 STAN BAILEY News staff writer

MONTGOMERY  An unidentified hacker using the name "fox" broke into the Alabama Legislature's Internet home page over the weekend and blocked public access to it for nearly 60 hours.

Jeff Woodard, an aide to House Speaker Seth Hammett, said he found the page blocked when he tried to access it Monday morning after being notified by the state Finance Department that hackers had broken into it.

"The page was blank, just a white screen with black letters on the top left that said, 'shut down by fox,'" Woodard said.

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