In the early morning hours of Saturday, August 17, 1996, a computer system at the . Department of Justice was attacked. The target of the attack was the Department of Justice's web server, . The attackers compromised the server's security and modified its home page - adding swastikas, obscene pictures, and a diatribe against the Communications Decency Act (which, ironically, had recently been declared unconstitutional by a federal court in Philadelphia).