Turkish hackers again break into Russian football club’s website

Turkish hackers continue to attack FC Spartak Moscow football club’s official website.

“Despite the measures taken, the attack on the club’s official website continues. The entire club and experts apologize for the problems connected with the website. In the future, we will continue to inform the team’s news by way of social networks,” FC Spartak Moscow’s official Facebook account reads. 

As NEWS.am Sport informed earlier, Turkish hackers broke into FC Spartak Moscow’s official website, on the evening of August 22, and the website is down ever since.  

The portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk—founder of the Rep. of Turkey—appeared on the website’s homepage on August 22, and with the following inscription: “Immediately apologize to the Turkish nation! FIFA [International Federation of Association Football] did not heed this fact, but we will not leave this crime unpunished.”

To note, during the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League match played on August 21 in Moscow, and between FC Spartak Moscow and Fenerbahce S.K. of Istanbul, Turkey—which ended by a score of 2-1 in favor of the host club—the Spartak fans in the stands had burned posters with the portrait of Ataturk.

Also, it became apparent that the Russian fans had attacked the Turkish football fans in the Russian capital, even before the match. Close to twenty Spartak fans had attacked twelve Fenerbahce fans in a downtown Moscow bar.