The State government’s official website “www.keralagov.in” has been hacked by Pakistan-based hackers and efforts are on a war footing to restore it, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said.
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The hacked websites include Pakistan’s government website Pakistan.gov.pk, president.gov.pk and cabinet.gov.pk, according to reports.
After the Kerala government website was reported to have been hacked by suspected Pakistani hackers, an online vigilante group calling themselves “The Mallu Cyber Soldiers” on Facebook have retaliated.
Officials said that they had shut down the website following the attack and has started maintenance of it. The site is managed and hosted by C-DIT.
“Such situations of hacking have taken place everywhere in the world”. The Indian hackers also past year have hacked some government website of Pakistan. Another message under the image read, “security is just an illusion”. The hackers have also posted slogans saying “Hacked by Faisal 1337”.
The site is now being repaired by the state-owned Centre for Development of Imaging Technology which said the website server had not been hacked.
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Now your 46 Pakistan government websites got crashed and 4 educational websites got defaced.
