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The Italian website and informatics services of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are under a DdoS attack by anonymous hackers who demanded to cancel from their server an article about corruption in Azerbaijan, the information published on the site Balcanicaucaso.org reports.

It says that DdoS attack started since 16th of august. Then the anonymous hackers established a communication line with the editorial staff through a fake Facebook address, ordering to cancel from the archive the folloing article on Azerbaijan (http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Azerbaijan/Corruption-and-oil-in-Azerbaijan-109421). If the article disappears, it is stated in the post, the cyber-attacks will stop they said.

“Soon after our servers in Germany and the UK were attacked and turned off, and we received a new post threatening further consequences, i.e. the destruction of all our informatics system,” the Balcanicaucaso.org reports.

The site notes that over the past 10 years the guiding line of Osservatorio has always been the interest and right of the reader to free information.

“We want to continue along this way, and therefore cannot accept being blackmailed. However, we are aware of the fact that our enemy – be it a government or private group - does not fail in resources, and that our survival on the web is at stake,” the site notes.

Note that the material which the hackers demand to take away was published on January 2013. It tells about the high level corruption in the oil sector of Azerbaijan and about the fact that Western companies turn a blind eye to this fact.