Spyware hidden on Sydney Opera House website  12 June 2007 - The Sydney Opera House website was found to contain malicious codes that download a spyware on to the computer of unsuspecting website users. The Sydney Opera House site is visited by more than 300,000 internet users every month. Sydney Opera House director of information systems Claire Swaffield says she became aware the website had been hacked and the main page modified to contain the code in late May.

"It's impossible for us to say exactly when that code went in," she says. "Our internal monitoring . . . drew it to our attention."

The code would infect web browsers that were not patched with the latest security updates with Trojan software, most likely designed to capture sensitive information such as internet banking details from victims' computers.

Since the security compromise, which Ms Swaffield says did not result in the disclosure of customer data, Sydney Opera House has removed the offending code and had its website tested for security vulnerabilities by a specialist firm, Pure Hacking.

Original Article: Nasty surprise discovered on Opera House's website