On a day the government said in the Rajya Sabha that, it would build consensus on rules for controlling Internet content. An international hacking group reportedly breached the websites of the ruling Congress and the Supreme Court of India. The Delhi Bar Council also claimed that its website was defaced by unidentified hackers.
Hacker group Anonymous is believed to have attacked the websites in response to the Center blocking torrent portal Pirate Bay and video-sharing Vimeo. The group is said to have launched “MT Operation India” to protest the government's censorship plan. While both the Congress and SC admitted their sites were down for sometime, but they denied the sites were hacked.
Tweets coming in by the hacker group, opindia confirm that the security of the official websites of the Supreme Court of India and the All India Congress Committee has been compromised. Even as you're reading this, the websites - http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in, dot.gov.in and aicc.org.in have been rendered inaccessible.
“The site is not hacked at all. It was not opening for sometime because the load on the particular server was too heavy due to huge number of hits after the news of website hacking spread. It went slow at that time due to over-traffic,” Congress party's computer department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said.
Anonymous Central had earlier tweeted, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck". Hackers had broken into Congress websites last December and defaced party chief Sonia Gandhi's profile page with objectionable material. The cyber attack coincided with Gandhi's 65th birthday.
Hacker group Anonymous is believed to have attacked the websites in response to the Center blocking torrent portal Pirate Bay and video-sharing Vimeo. The group is said to have launched “MT Operation India” to protest the government's censorship plan. While both the Congress and SC admitted their sites were down for sometime, but they denied the sites were hacked.
Tweets coming in by the hacker group, opindia confirm that the security of the official websites of the Supreme Court of India and the All India Congress Committee has been compromised. Even as you're reading this, the websites - http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in, dot.gov.in and aicc.org.in have been rendered inaccessible.
“The site is not hacked at all. It was not opening for sometime because the load on the particular server was too heavy due to huge number of hits after the news of website hacking spread. It went slow at that time due to over-traffic,” Congress party's computer department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said.
Anonymous Central had earlier tweeted, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck". Hackers had broken into Congress websites last December and defaced party chief Sonia Gandhi's profile page with objectionable material. The cyber attack coincided with Gandhi's 65th birthday.
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