Giorgi Jakhaia a.k.a. Cyxymu’, is a Georgian blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated series of attacks on social networking sites Facebook, Google Blogger, Live Journal and Twitter.
Cyxymu’s Russian-language LiveJournal blog was a source of information from Georgia for the news media during the 2007 state of emergency and 2008 South Ossetia war.
Cyxymu said he had started his blog as a way to unite ethnic Georgians who lived in Sukhumi but were forced to leave as refugees in 1993 when Abkhazia seceded from Georgia. “When the war started in South Ossetia last year I couldn’t avoid being drawn into politics,” he said. ( The Guardian )
The blogger, who extensively covers the suffering of Georgian civilians during and after the War in Abkhazia, became the first digital refugee. Facebook came out in defense of Cyxymu, with chief security officer Max Kelly stating that “It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard.”
Cyxymu’s LJ blog had previously been targeted by denial-of-service attacks in October 2008, rendering the LiveJournal servers unavailable three times during October 26-27.
