Politics & Government

Hacker Hits St. Charles County Government Website

The government website was down for a few hours.

Fox 2 News reported that the website for St. Charles County government was hacked by an Indonesian hacker who claims to have hacked nearly 5,000 high profile sites like IBM and government sites around the world.

After a few hours with the website showing only the message "hacked by Hmei7," the site was back up shortly after 8 a.m.

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