Tehran, 15 Feb. (AKI) - The controversy over cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed first published by Danish papers has turned into a cyber war between Denmark and Iran. After Iranian hackers defaced dozens of Danish websites, Iranian and Canadian based servers hosting official and unofficial Iranian websites were smeared by Danish hackers on Tuesday. Victims included the Iranian oil ministry and the leading Iranian news agencies, IRNA and Fars.According to Roozbeh Hashemi, who is in charge of Ravand Tazeh, one of Iran's top servers, both public and private companies suffered "significant" damages.
Jamal Karimi Rad, the spokesman for the Iranian judicial authority, said the attack by Danish hackers on the servers hosting Iranian institutional websites is "an act against the freedom of information."
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Karimi Rad called on the Canadian government to "strongly protest with Denmark for the defacing of a Canadian server." The Toronto-based Ouriran server hosts 10,000 Iranian websites, 800 of which are managed by the government and official institutions.