Several regime websites, including the Indian Defence Ministry’s website, were on Fri believed to move hacked afterwards they showed a chinese grapheme together with an mistake message. The regime said that the mistake was non caused past times a hack, but past times a technical glitch.
On Friday, Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted that “action is initiated afterwards hacking” of the Ministry of Defense website together with that it volition move restored shortly.
Action is initiated afterwards the hacking of MoD website ( https://t.co/7aEc779N2b ). The website shall move restored shortly. Needless to say, every possible footstep required to forbid whatever such eventuality inwards the time to come volition move taken. @DefenceMinIndia @PIB_India @PIBHindi— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) April 6, 2018
Later on the same day, the Ministry of Electronics together with information technology issued a disputation proverb that the websites had inwards fact non been hacked but were affected past times a “technical number inwards storage.”
“The site showed what appeared to move a Chinese grapheme together with it was understandable that the site was perceived to move hacked,” the regime said inwards the statement. “However, it has since been identified that the sites possess got non been hacked.”
The websites affected past times the glitch were hosted inwards the NIC information middle (National Informatics Centre) together with close x regime websites became inaccessible to the public.
The websites that were affected include Ministry of Defence, MHA, Department of Public Enterprises, Election Commission, EPFO, Ministry of Labor, together with Department of Science & Technology.
