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Hackers breach Cern security

Iain Thomson

12 September 2008 • 1 min read

Greek crew came within one level of LHC control

Greek hackers have targeted the Large Hadron Collider A Greek hacking crew has come close to getting into the controls of Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which went live on Wednesday. The...

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