What Organization is Next? Senate Website Hacked

The Senate's website was the latest victim to cyberattacks over the weekend, according to the office in charge of the site's security. The Sergeant at Arms Office, which monitors the site, said that no personal Senator information was released. "We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side," Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms said Monday. A Reuters report notes that "Lulz Security, who have hacked into Sony's

website and the Public Broadcasting System, posted online a list of files that appear not to be sensitive but indicate the hackers had been into the Senate's computer network." "We don't like the U.S. government very much," Lulz Security said at the top of their release. "This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?" The Senate website now joins Sony, Lockheed Martin

, and the International Monetary Fund as recent victims of hacking. No company or government entity appears to be immune from attack. Senate security maintains that everything is fine - for now. "Although this intrusion is inconvenient, it does not compromise the security of the Senate's network, its members or staff," Bradford said in the statement. "Specifically, there is no individual user account information on the server supporting senate.gov that could have been compromised."