: Softpedia: UK Parliament website attacked

Part of the website of the UK parliament has been cracked (hacked into), revealing the administrators' passwords which were stored unencrypted. After the attack was reported to the webmaster, it took over 2 days for them to take the compromised page off-line, which means that everyone who's interested in such things will have had plenty of time to fiddle with the system. Eight days later, the page is still off-line (checked 7.9.09).

See also this report at The Registry.