Translation of Planet Multimedia Article on the Cryptome hack:

Cyberactivist server Cryptome.org wiped out

Cryptome.org, a revealing site about privacy and censorship, has been
completely wiped out by webvandals. A dutch @home customer has been
accused of the hack. Allthough he claims to be the victim of a digital
slander campaign.

Yesterday Cryptome.org became the victim of a hacker. All data on the
server were erased, but were eventually restored. A copy of the
Cryptome-site, or atleast what was left of it, is here (link).

No data disapeared completely. Soon following the hack three
backup-servers came online. The names of the subdomains referred to Europe,
The Netherlands and Austria.

Cryptome's hosting provider, verio, is investigating the source of the
attack. So far, cryptome-maintainer John Young reports, the trail has been
backtracked to a german proxy server.

The first clues off the hack lead to someone who uses the nickname
Bighawk, using the internetdomain Kryptology.org. This trail leads to a
dutchman with an @home internetaccount. Though Jogchem de Groot, a member
of a hackinggroup called Hackweiser, claims not to have been involved in
the Cryptome attack.

In an e-mail to cryptome de Groot claims to be the victim of a
'cyberattack' on his person. He claims he has been continiously harrassed
by an unknown group of cybervandals for the past few months. With non
specified actions they are attempting to discredit him. De Groot claims to
have an idea about the identity of the real culprits en has offered
Cryptome his help in tracking them down.

The german Webzine Heise.de asked the German hacking community if it were
probable that De Groot's hacking group Hackweiser demolished Cryptome.
This is not the case.