Cyber attackers target Hampstead museum dedicated to Freud
Actor Viggo Mortensen and writer Lisa Appignanesi at the Freud Museum. Picture: Polly Hancock - Credit: Archant
As far as Heathman is concerned, computer hacking is all about breaching the defences of secretive organisations like the CIA to uncover startling conspiracies and evidence of alien life.
So when a museum dedicated to the founder of psychoanalysis was hit by a cyber attack, the natural thought was: What have they got to hide?
Of course, no-one really suspects The Freud Museum in Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, of being engaged in any Mulder and Skully-style shenanigans.
But that did not stop a hacker – whose identity and motivation remain a complete mystery – from accessing its website and somehow destroying six weeks of hard work.
Despite being a deeply frustrating episode, the museum announced the news on Twitter with good humour and a conspiracy theory of its own by posting: “Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians).”
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Queue responses about getting “the Id of the perpetrators”, the schoolboy error of using “mother” as a password, and a question from @tubbsOreally: “But why do you feel the host name is ‘invalid’?”
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