(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A Columbia attorney who is running for lieutenant governor claims his campaign Web site was defaced by an unidentified Middle Eastern hacker
promoting radical Islam.
However, a computer expert says it's impossible to determine where the hacker was based.
Republican Bill Connor says his site was to be back up Tuesday less than a day after the intrusion. In a statement, he declared that such a threat would not keep him
from doing his job.
A computer expert contacted by The Associated Press who studied the site says the alterations are similar to those made about 4,500 times elsewhere on the Web.
Ray Dickenson of the technology security firm Authentium also says the alterations do not appear to have any political content in them.
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