CBI registers case for defacement of its website

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation, whose hacked website was still down Saturday evening, has filed a case for the defacement of its website by a group identifying itself as the " Pakistani Cyber Army", an official said.

"It came to our notice that the official website of the CBI was unauthorisedly accessed and defaced in the intervening night of Dec 3-4. We have registered a case with the cyber crime cell of the CBI under the relevant sections of law," a CBI official said.

The group claimed to have hacked the server of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts the CBI website.

According to the investigating agency, a message read "Pakistan Zindabad" and was posted on the website Friday night. But the agency said it has no idea who was behind this cyber attack.

"As of now, we have no idea who is behind this," the official added.

According to the official, the website will be available for public interface at the earliest. "Efforts are underway to restore the website with the help of the NIC and the CBI cyber security experts," said the official.

While the banner and index of the website intact, the group posted a message, mocking India's premier investigating agency.

The message read: "This attempt is in response to the Pakistani websites hacked by 'Indian Cyber Army'. We told u before too...we are sleeping but not dead."

"Back off kids or we will smoke ur doors off like we did before...let us see what you investigating agency so called CBI can do," it said.

The group also said that it had hacked into the root server of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which maintained most of the government websites.

The website defacers ended their message with "Pakistan Zindabad". According to Pakistani daily Express Tribune, 200 Indian websites were hacked Friday.

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CBI website hacked by 'Pak Cyber Army'

NEW DELHI: In a major embarrassment, the website of premier investigating agency CBI was hacked tonight by programmers identifying themselves as "Pakistani Cyber Army".

The home page of the CBI website had a message from the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' warning the Indian Cyber Army not to attack their websites.

The hackers have made a mockery of the country's cyber security by infiltrating into the CBI website, supposed to be one of the most secure websites. The CBI is connected to the command centre of world police organisation - Interpol - 24x7.

The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a body which mans computer servers across the country.

Intelligence agencies have been often warning the government that proper cyber security was not being ensured in government offices and that no security audit was being carried out.

The Pakistani Cyber Army has also warned that it would carry out "mass defacement" of other websites.

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CBI registers case in connection with hacking of its website - The Hindu

The Hindu : News / National : CBI registers case in connection with hacking of its website ArchivesSubscriptionsRSS FeedsSite MapePaperMobileSocialSEARCHHomeNewsOpinionSportBusinessArtsLife & StyleS & TEducationHealthClassifiedsToday's PaperTopicsInternationalNationalStatesCities: BangaloreChennaiCoimbatoreDelhiHyderabadKochiMaduraiMangaloreThiruvananthapuramTiruchirapalliVijayawadaVisakhapatnam News» NationalNew Delhi,December 4, 2010CBI registers case in connection with hacking of its website PTIShare  ·  print  ·   The CBI on Saturday registered a case against unknown persons for hacking and defacement of its official website by people who identified themselves as “Pakistani Cyber Army.”

The CBI registered the case under various sections of the Information Technology Act and said efforts were underway to restore the website for public interface at the earliest, an official spokesperson said here.

In a brief statement, the spokesperson said, “It has come to the notice of the CBI that its official website was illegally accessed and defaced in the intervening night of December 3 and 4.

“A case has been registered in this connection in the cyber crime cell of the CBI and efforts are underway to restore the website with the help of National Informatics Centre and the CBI cyber security experts,” the spokesperson said.

The home page of the CBI website was hacked and it had a message from the ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ warning the ‘Indian Cyber Army’ that their websites should not be attacked.

The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the NIC, a body which mans computer servers across the country.

Intelligence agencies have been warning the government that proper cyber security was not being ensured in offices and that no security audit was being carried out.

The ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ also threatened to carry out “mass defacement” of other websites.

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