As you may have heard, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) accused Ned Lamont's (D) campaign of "hacking" into his campaign website. However, the AP reports Lieberman's staff "offered no evidence that Lamont's supporters were to blame."
Lamont's campaign issued the following statement: "If Senator Liebermanís website was indeed hacked, we had absolutely no part in it, denounce the action, and urge whoever is responsible cease and desist immediately.
The Hotline notes the attack "may have real consequences" since "the Lieberman campaign can't communicate via e-mail with their field offices and can't efficiently monitor their field program." TPM Muckraker confirms the campaign email is affected.
However, Bob Geiger questions whether it's dirty tricks or just a technical problem. "If it really is a denial of service attack -- in which a web site is bombarded with so much traffic that legitimate users cannot get through -- and Lieberman's techies are not actually sitting in the room where the server is located, how can they put up their little update notices that we have sporadically seen? If people on the web can't remotely get to the Lieberman site, neither can they."
Update: Kos says the Lieberman website is down because it's a cheap hosting plan that couldn't handle the traffic.
August 8, 2006
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