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Austin-area district pulls all school websites after hackers post obscenities
The entire website system of an Austin-area school district is still down after it was hacked over the weekend and education materials replaced with obscene messages and racist threats.
A Round Rock Independent School District principal first reported the problem to officials late on Saturday after parents and students noticed the dramatic change in the site's content.
Many of the pages can't be printed but one did name a group "9gag'' as being behind the "raid" that came from their "mother's basement."
A district spokeswoman said officials don't yet have any information about who did it or how.
More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Austin-area-district-pulls-all-school-websites-5088235.php?cmpid=hpts .