RAIPUR: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Digital India week to reform government through technology, the official website of National Institute of Technologyhttp://www.nitrr.ac.in/ was hacked and defaced by a Pakistani hacker on Thursday.
The homepage was defaced with a warning "Hacked Pak Cyber Attackers" and a slogan at the bottom "Pakistan Zindabad" followed by "nothing harmed just defaced and deleted some vulnerable files, we are Muslim hackers, we hack for cause, not for fun; contact us."
Afzal's Facebook page also displayed his latest post on Thursday "National Institute of Technology Raipur Official Website HACKED AND ROOTED" with a mirror link of the site's page of how it looked like when it was hacked.
Talking to TOI, cyber security expert Mohit Sahu said that he received a message from Afzal on FB saying that he had hacked NIT's website.
"He had been accessing NIT's website since a year and had never been tracked down. By hacking, Afzal wanted to show how vulnerable the websites are. He had earlier hacked NIT Kolkata's website also, link of which is posted on his wall. The mirror link is what the hacker posts and keeps as log about the sites he has hacked and how they looked after hacking," Sahu said.
Though the site has been recovered, the danger still looms. "The hacker still has the 'buzz' and he can hack whenever he wants to again. Buzz is an open source content management system mostly used by amateur users and they are in millions. Once it gets leaked or decoded, anyone can hack the sites," Sahu explained.
Mocking at Digital India week, Afzal has also reportedly warned that Pakistani hackers were planning to hack many more sites of Government of India, mocking at the vulnerable technology system here.
According to Sahu, most Chhattisgarh government websites made on 'drupal' were highly vulnerable and easily hack-able. While Modi government has been boasting about digitizing India and digital lockers, such threats and incidents of hacking raise serious concern over cyber security. Cyber experts also fear that information related to aadhaar cards which carry details of people, were also leaked.
Mohit says that though United States may follow digitization massively, they know how to remain technically safe and are updated. Meanwhile, as per NIT officials, Afzal has not destroyed or deleted any of the files and they would discuss the loophole with cyber experts to resolve the problem.
Earlier, in April, Pakistan-based hackers had hacked Chhattisgarh government's environment conservation board website, www.enviscecb.org, where the home page was defaced with slogans of "Free Kashmir... Freedom is our goal" and photographs of violent protests in J&K and the burning of a tricolour flag. The site was hacked by so-called Team Pak Cyber Experts.
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