New Zealand's busiest LGBT Internet Forum is offline for a few hours today while GayNZ.com's technical department deals with a hit by Turkish web hackers. The GayNZ.com Forum front page was replaced with this page The front page of GayNZ.com's Forum section was replaced by the image shown above overnight, but the rest of the Forum's thousands of pages, posts and profiles remained intact and unchanged, says GayNZ.com's technical manager Neil Gibb, who has taken the Forum offline to fix the problem. The hacker appears to be based in Turkey, meaning GayNZ.com is the latest in a number of high-profile websites to be hit by criminal Turkish hackers. The American-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website was hacked just last week, by a group of Turkish hackers calling themselves the NetDevils, and describing themselves as a "lovable Turkish hackers' group". This taunting message was left on the ICANN website by the group: "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?" Internet porn site Redtube was also hacked by the same group last year, and the BBC reports it has blocked several attempts by Turkish hackers to disable their website. The GayNZ.com team wishes to thank our Forum users for quickly alerting us to the problem.