http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4744329.ece



By Mike Harvey and Mark Henderson 

The Times

September 13, 2008



Hackers have broken into one of the computer networks of the Large 

Hadron Collider (LHC).



A group calling itself the Greek Security Team left a rogue webpage 

describing the technicians responsible for computer security at the 

giant atom smasher as "schoolkids" . but reassuring scientists that they 

did not want to disrupt the experiment.



The hackers gained access to a website open to other scientists on 

Wednesday as the LHC passed its first test, sending its protons off on 

their dizzying journey through time and space, close to the speed of 

light.



The work of the scientists was not derailed and insiders scoffed at 

claims that the hackers were 'one step away' from the systems 

controlling the experiment itself. The engineering team completed four 

days of scheduled work in the first 24 hours but what physicists are 

really waiting for is the big bang machine's first collisions.



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