PANAMA CITY - The Panhandle Educators Federal Credit Union website was defaced by a hacker Sunday morning.
The website’s home page read “Defaced By Silent Attacker” and showed a goth-like figure similar to Guy Fawkes, the English revolutionary whose image is now associated with the hacker community and protest movements like Occupy Wall Street.
The website, www.pefcu.org, was restored in a matter of a couple hours, said PEFCU marketing director Tanya Deal, and the security of account information was never at risk.
The credit union’s site, which is administered by a third-party, was not the only site effected, Deal said.
Last month, PEFCU changed its online authentication system for online banking. The credit union called it a security upgrade.