Amravati cops clueless about AU website hackers

AMRAVATI: The website of Amravati University and other 27 institutes in the city are lying defunct after it was hacked by a group called Muslim Liberation Army on Sunday. However, police said that they cannot tell for sure that the Muslim Liberation Army (MLA) has hacked organization or someone else has done it on the name of MLA.
Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said, “Creating nuisance seems to be the hacker’s aim.The MLA is a US-based organization, which is connected to some terrorist outfits. But we cannot tell at this moment that MLA is the hacker. We are also investigating whether someone else is involved in the act,” said Kumar.
Hackers, who called themselves Muslim Liberation Army members, had hacked home pages of 46 websites of 27 institutes.
Kumar said, “There are media reports of 1,200 websites in country being hacked. All hacked websites were developed by Alok Goenka who runs his net and web firm. He had taken service from GB Unlimited of Chennai. We called GB Unlimited but did not get any response from them.”
We have sent mails to some international agencies also and are waiting for the reply.”
Meanwhile, students faced inconvenience since the university website was defunct. Amravati University public relation officer Vilas Nandurkar said, “We are trying to repair the website … Our officials will take due precaution so that the data in website is not damaged.”