Govt website hackers traced to foreign countries

HYDERABAD: Cyber Investigating agencies have intensified the probe into hacking of 27 government websites. The preliminary probe revealed that the hacking was executed by proxies from foreign countries, including Algeria, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Based on the complaint lodged by the IT department officials about the hacking of government websites, CID sleuths booked cases under sections 65 and 66 of the IT Act on Thursday.
A team of CID Cyber Crime sleuths, supported by National Informatics Centre (NIC), KPMG, Wipro team and some experts recommended by Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) have started working on the hacking issue.
The team has zeroed in on some URLs of the hackers and the tracking of them revealed that proxy computers in Algeria, Bangladesh and Myanmar were used to launch the attack.
“Our team is working hard to track down the accused but the process will take some time,” additional DG, CID, SV Ramana Murthy told TOI. So far the investigating team has not been able to ascertain the motive of the hackers.
Among the 27 government websites which were hacked, so far only has been restored and important websites like are yet to be reloaded.
“We are auditing all the affected websites and once the process is done all the sites will be restored. The process may take a day or two,” secretary IT & C Sanjay Jaju told TOI.