The websites of Intellivision vintage videogames and the “Making It” comic strip were hacked over the weekend, apparently by a supporter of the Syrian government nicknamed “The Shadow,” who replaced the websites’ content with bloody images and political messages.
The sites’ internet service provider removed the hacker’s content and took steps to report the incident to authorities, said Keith Robinson of Manhattan Beach, creator of the syndicated “Making It” strip that has run in Easy Reader for 26 years, and production president of Intellivision.
About midday Sunday, Robinson received an email from a member of the public warning that intellivisiongames.com and intellivisionlives.com had been hacked.
Robinson turned to the websites, and to his MakingIt.com site, to see what he described as bloody images with messages apparently in Arabic. He contacted the ISP, which removed the hacker’s content within about four hours. The original sites were back up by Monday.
A friend of Robinson used a translating program to render the hacker’s message in English.
“Sorry to break your site,” but that was done “to spread our message,” the hacker began.
“They’re extremists, but they’re polite,” Robinson said.
The message went on to criticize U.S. policy supporting “terrorism in Syria.” ER
