NCI Site Hacked -- Or Was It?

A group of hackers known as "LulzSecEurope” claimed they breached the National Cancer Institute’s website on Oct. 31, but the agency says the alleged hack didn’t happen. Rumors of the hack circulated online Wednesday after the group claimed the hack on its Twitter page, posting a link to allegedly hacked data from the site.

However, a spokesperson for the National Cancer Institute, which coordinates the National Cancer Program for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, denied the claims that its site – www.cancer.gov – was hacked in any way. “Someone retrieved open source code from a publically accessible website and posted it as evidence of a hack,” said the spokesperson, who did not want to be identified. “There are some places you can find code, and that’s all they did.”...