Brazil government latest victim of hacker attack

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Hackers briefly disabled  three websites belonging to the Brazilian government early yesterday in the latest of an international wave of cyber  attacks on companies and organizations.

The sites for Brazil’s federal government, presidency, and  tax collection agency were inaccessible to the public for about  two and a half hours overnight but their operation has since  been restored, Gilberto Paganotto,