Nissan Websites Down Because of Anti-Whaling Hackers

Although the automaker doesn’t have anything to do with whale hunting, a couple of Nissan’s websites were down for two days after an Anonymous-linked hacker protesting Japanese whaling attempted to highjack them. Nissan’s global corporate sites and Japanese domestic market site were taken down after the company’s Internet administrators detected an attempted denial-of-service attack. In other words,…