Friday, May 31, 2013
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the apparent hacking of the website for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which said today that the unauthorized changes never jeopardized any personal information for department employees or the public.
An unauthorized user made changes embedded in the website’s code to redirect visitors or increase Internet traffic at other sites, department spokesman Matt Eiselstein said in an email. The code changes weren’t visible to the public and have been corrected, he said.
The state began its investigation earlier this week after The Associated Press contacted Natural Resources about unusual activity on an agency website page that outlines rules and regulations for dealing with dangerous wild animals.