Govt Media Ministry Website Is Hacked: Now Showing War Crimes
By Colombo Telegraph -February 24, 2013Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Mass Media & Information official website,www.media.gov.lk is hacked by a group called H4xor HuSsY and now showing a war crime documentary. Hackers says “Stop killing innocent Tamil people! Or get prepared to attack from us!” . “Greetz to all those who support us!” – “We Pakistanis are with everyone!” – “We want justice! Justice everywhere! “
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HACKERS have attacked Sri Lanka’s media ministry by placing a documentary about alleged war crimes during the island’s ethnic war on its website, an official said Monday.
The hackers identifying themselves as “H4x0r HuSsY” uploaded a link to an Australian Broadcasting Corp report on atrocities during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s battle against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
“Stop Killing Innocent Tamil Ppl! Or Get prepared 4 Attacks From Us!” read a message left on the website, media.gov.lk.
An official in the Mass Media and Information ministry said the website had been “reclaimed” on Monday morning.
“The hackers exploited a loophole over the weekend, but we have plugged it now,” the official said on condition of anonymity,
The media ministry is known to carry out unofficial censorship of news sites deemed to be anti-government by pressuring local Internet service providers to block their content.
The Sri Lanka government is braced for more criticism of its human rights record during its war against Tamil separatists at the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The United States has given notice of a new resolution against the island which is set to be voted on this week.
Rights groups say up to 40,000 civilians were killed by security forces in the final months of a no-holds-barred offensive that ended in May 2009.
Sri Lanka denies causing any civilian deaths and has refused to allow an independent international probe. -AFP
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| [ Monday, 25 February 2013, 06:28.15 AM GMT +05:30 ] |
  The Media Ministry website was hacked today with an image posted on the domain front page of a person with a gun. |
| While the inner pages of the website http://www.media.gov.lk seemed unaffected, the opening page had been breached. A message was posted on the opening page with the image saying “here you go Sri Lankan ********s” and at the top of the page a text said the page was hacked by H4x0r HuSsY. Several government websites had been hacked this year but so far there have not been reports of vital information being lost. Recently it was reported that websites of the Inventors Commission, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and the Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Affairs had been hacked and defaced. The one responsible for the defacements is Haxor Hussey, a Pakistani hacker who has previously breached numerous government sites, including ones from India, Mexico, Colombia, and Bangladesh.     |
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