CU Website Marred By Hacker

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The website for Panhandle Educators FCU was penetrated and defaced by a hacker Sunday morning.

The website’s home page read “Defaced By Silent Attacker” and showed an all-in-black  Goth-like figure resembling Guy Fawkes, the English revolutionary whose image is now associated with the hacker community and protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street.

The website, www.pefcu.org, was restored in several hours and the security of account information was never at risk, according to the credit union.

Last month, the credit union changed its online authentication system for online banking. The credit union called it a security upgrade.