ICANN Hacked ....Again

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• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for the coordination of maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, and ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.(Wikipedia definition).
• It address the issue of domain name ownership resolution for generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
• As per the information available, ICANN has been subject to a spear-phishing attacks since November 2014.
• The attack has caused the loss of email credentials, names and addresses of personal  user details stored in Centralised Zone Data System. 
• Besides this the ICANN blog, ICANN wiki and WHOIS information portal has also been compromised.
• Since its creation, ICANN has been the subject of criticism and controversy.
• This is not the first such attack targeted towards ICANN. In June 2008,  a Turkish gp "NetDevilz" hijacked the ICANN site and redirected it to site giving out message as  "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?"
• Here is the first hand information given by ICANN on its site   https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-12-16-en