On tuesday, February 9th, German hacktivists took over the website of the German interior minister,  Wolfgang Schäuble,  in a protest against new German wiretapping and data retention laws.  They replaced the site with links to a protest site: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/.  The site was hacked by using a dictionary attack against the typo3 cms the website was using the password turned out to be 'gewinner' or 'winner' in english.  The hack only lasted a couple hours before it was taken down, though the website remained unaccessible for wednesday. 

Some of you may remember that the Chaos Computer Club hacked Wolfgang Schäuble last year by putting his fingerprints online in a protest against the use of biometrics in passports.