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Hackers strike again on Sonia birthday
Cocking a snook at the Government’s threat to regulate social media, hackers on Friday broke into the AICC website and defaced the profile of Congress president Sonia Gandhi by putting in its place objectionable content. This happened on the 66th birthday of the Congress president.
Confirming the hacking a senior Congress leader said, “It has happened. We are rebuilding and taking care of the damages rectifying the website.”
AICC computer department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said that the hackers could penetrate deep inside the website and changed one paragraph (of Sonia Gandhi).
Two of the party’s websites — aicc.org.in and congress.org.in — were subjected to the attack prompting the party to “put them down” in the morning. The third website inc.org.in remained unaffected.
The hacking came to light as the servers hosting the websites collapsed due to massive re-direction of Internet traffic.
A detailed check on the server has been carried out and the party will return to the cyberspace soon, Singh said. The party websites have been under frequent attacks from hackers, who had some time back tried to break into the websites thrice in one night.
Declining to share who was behind the cyber attack, a party leader said, “We are not the investigating agency.”
Significantly, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal had recently taken strong exception to the objectionable content on social media and had indicated that the Government is going to evolve a mechanism to deal with such unacceptable online content. This was deeply resented by netizens who had termed it as an attack on their freedom of expression
Cocking a snook at the Government’s threat to regulate social media, hackers on Friday broke into the AICC website and defaced the profile of Congress president Sonia Gandhi by putting in its place objectionable content. This happened on the 66th birthday of the Congress president.
Confirming the hacking a senior Congress leader said, “It has happened. We are rebuilding and taking care of the damages rectifying the website.”
AICC computer department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said that the hackers could penetrate deep inside the website and changed one paragraph (of Sonia Gandhi).
Two of the party’s websites — aicc.org.in and congress.org.in — were subjected to the attack prompting the party to “put them down” in the morning. The third website inc.org.in remained unaffected.
The hacking came to light as the servers hosting the websites collapsed due to massive re-direction of Internet traffic.
A detailed check on the server has been carried out and the party will return to the cyberspace soon, Singh said. The party websites have been under frequent attacks from hackers, who had some time back tried to break into the websites thrice in one night.
Declining to share who was behind the cyber attack, a party leader said, “We are not the investigating agency.”
Significantly, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal had recently taken strong exception to the objectionable content on social media and had indicated that the Government is going to evolve a mechanism to deal with such unacceptable online content. This was deeply resented by netizens who had termed it as an attack on their freedom of expression
