“Mayor Bill Finch was surrounded Monday by Iranian Internet hackers.

Not literally, but the mayor’s photo at the center of the city’s official Web site was sandwiched between the phrase, ‘Hacked by KiAnPhP from Iran.’ The cyber graffiti was posted Monday morning by Internet hackers who breached the security of the server maintained by SWB Consulting, the company that hosts the municipal site.

Posted above the large type were the words, ‘In the name of Cyrus the Great,’ which linked to the Wikipedia entry about Cyrus the Great, the Persian king.

‘The company has a server where they house our Web site and that is what was infiltrated,’ said Elaine Ficarra, the mayor’s spokeswoman.

Ficarra said the city’s Internet Technology Department worked with SWB Consulting for the better part of the day trying to correct the problem. As of 5 p.m., the large messages had been removed, but smaller postings of ‘Hacked by KiAnPhP’ remained in the news update scroller on the right-hand side of the home page and in the options lists on either side.”

(Hackers break into Bridgeport website – The Connecticut Post Online)