The message left by the hacker states that the defacement was carried out in remembrance of those Indians who were killed during the Mumbai triple bombings on July 13, 2011. Ashell belongs to the hacker group Indishell, which is also known as the Indian Cyber Army.
The hacker also left a link to the “database” of the entire website, calling the defacement a “gift to Pakistan”.
Over 20 people had been killed and 141 injured on July 13 last year in three blasts during the evening rush hour in central and south districts of Mumbai at Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar.
Hackers from Pakistan and India have been embroiled in a cyber war, and also continue to attack websites from their own countries.
Indian hackers had defaced the website of Atrium Cinemas, Karachi’s first 3D entertainment centre, in November last year.
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@Deb, India: Keep your moderate thinking to you. Who will apologize for Kashmiri Pundits, People who lost lives in 26/11 Mumbai? Who will apologize when Pakistani hackers hack Indian websites? Proud of this Indian hacker.
Atleast E.T is giving this hacker's a needed chance by giving space & his cause in their paper and promoting his links that could not have been available to all, thanks E.T.
Yeah and about the Indian involvement in many terrorist activities in Pakistan and inciting violence in Balochistan for past so many years, what does this hacker think about that?
@Afghan Karachiite: not easiest to 'hack' .. easy to exploit. There is a big difference and ignorance is not an excuse to praise someone for exploiting a website just because his brute forcer happened to pick up on a poorly done website.
Please keep your kudos for those who 'hack' and discover unknown security issues and contribute towards making the web safer for us all not some kid with too much spare time too little self esteem.
I am a web dev myself and would be happy to discuss why some govt. offices cannot afford to maintain their webpages and why even websites of CIA and FBI get 'hacked' sometimes.
I can only laugh at some of the commentators here who come up with excuses like; the website was the easiest to hack and blah blah blah. I mean come on, it's a .gov site after all. Kudos to the hacker. Now the government institutes will think twice before hiring an incompetent webmaster through nepotism and "sifarish".
NHA's site was probably the easiest to hack...lol...
Well this kids from India and Pakistan don't know what is Cyber war. I mean seriously how is defacing poorly secured websites whether belonging to government or private institutions constitute a Cyber war. A Cyber war would be disrupting communications,routing internet traffic,hacking stock markets,bugging Nuclear installations and other sensitive military equipment causing sabotage or deception. A wonderful example is the Stuxnet virus created by Israel and America to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.And it paid off as Iran's nuclear program said to have been suffered a set back of atleast 2 or 3 years. Now that's Cyber war not this childish way of defacing websites.
@SouthEastAsian Who gave you the right to apologize on behalf of all Indians?? Talk about yourself only and dont act like a kid...
Come on kid grow-up!
act like this is childish by both the sides be it paki or indians ... the main aim should be defacement of terrorism .Its in interest of pakistani people to root out lashkers and various other millitant outfit and pave way to technical and medical outfits i.e institutions .. its high time that both country should work on scientific ,academic ,cultural and various other domains .. act like this by any party is going to bring out nothing. I urge pakistani elite class to motivate their leaders to bring about change of prosperity and root out religion based politics.. islam is religion of peace .. be it any religion talks about peace and prosperity. lets give peace a stronghold share in bringing prosperity in region. Amen
No doubt it was hacked by an indian just read the line 'in the remembering of ...'
On behalf of all Indians, I apologize for this childish and stupid act. This must not be condoned at all.
cyber war-both nation doing hard toiling to ashamed one an other in this war .
Ah, man looks like some one is taking revenge. Well this step of indian hackers again started a great cyber war between Indo-Pak
How petty - do all pakistani people represent a minority?
Ah, another script kiddie. Well he's not a 'hacker' .. he's just an opportunist kid looking for poorly done websites (.gov.pk domain of course) with shoddy security that are easily exploitable. Only thing he spent more than 4 minutes is probably that graphic collage he's put together .. I suspect that is Googled as well.
Thanks ET for giving such a miserable excuse for an 'hack' undue coverage.
please correct the date of attack !!! It wasnt last year