NEW DELHI: (AMN) The Central Bureau of Investigation (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 investigation agency has registered the case under various sections of Information Technology Act. In a brief statement, the spokesperson said, that efforts were on to restore the website with the help of National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the CBI cyber security experts.
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 website was not accessible even by late Saturday.
The hackers infiltrated 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 -24×7.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 often 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.