Of course, it can happen to anyone - the internet is still not as safe as we would want it to be- but it always leaves a nasty taste when others gain access to your official pages online. With the statement

"Within Temptation This w3bside h$z been h4cked! tommy Machine Forever!!"

and the images of a very famous and hilarious actor, 'tommy' lets us know he gained access to the management of within-temptation.com Currently we are waiting for the official statement of the record company of the band of Stephen van Haestregt and what the next steps will be in the process, besides putting back the normal website online... Supplement [June 02.27 hrs]: [ tommy hacker ] placed an add-on on the website of Within Temptation. From this statement the 'Tommy Machine' seems to excist of seven individuals from Germany and Mexico. A good reader notices that mainly web sites of Dutch bands under contract of BMG (Bertelsman Music Group - ed.) are hacked by this unknown but effective group of computer wizzards. The statement TM leaves on within-temptation.com is as follows:

"We, Tommy Machine, consist of 7 people around the globe. Hacked this site amongst others because we don't like commercial music and bad programmed websites. We are underground. We come from Germany and Mexico. We hack all types of computersystems just for challenge. We don't to any damage but only place our picture here and a message. If a bad programmed site stops working it is not our fault but from the programmer, who cant program!! Others sites hacked today by us: Boris, Idols, Maud, Jim, Jamai, Linkin Media, Kane, Di-rect, Within-Temptation, AT-Productions, KUS and several others. We are not terrorists. We help to see that your sites have bad security. It's not our fault you get hacked. You are responsible for your own systems you put online. From all artists i Like Within TEmptation most because it looks like Evanescense which I'm a fan of. End of statement, Pyromonger from Tommy Hackers MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!"