Hackers hijack top Russian football club's website

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Fans of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, one of Russia's top football clubs, got a surprise this morning if they visited the team's website.

Instead of seeing stories and images of their favourite soccer players in action, they were presented with a page of insults directed at the city's political leaders.

Images of Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko and Vadim Tyulpanov, speaker of the city parliament, were shown alongside a message that translated is part as:

"To hell with the party of thieves and pickpockets. They have already destroyed more buildings than the Nazis during the attack on Leningrad between '41 and '44"

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The rant went on to criticise political leaders for poorly clearing up icicles and winter snow, leading to the tragic death of five people, including two children.

Interestingly, a message on FC Zenit's Facebook page denied that their website had been hacked, and put the blame on a problem with their DNS records.

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