Screenshot of Supreme Court website Th morning |
At roughly noon on Thursday, it was constitute that the website of the Supreme Court of Bharat was hacked, reportedly occurring presently after or piece the courtroom announced its dismissal of the plea for an independent probe into the boot the bucket of Judge Loya.
The incident was discovered when screenshots were shared past times users on Twitter, showing an icon resembling a cannabis leaf, along amongst text reading “Hackeado por HighTech Brazil HackTeam” together with “te amo linda pequena ...melhor amiga que já tive,” which roughly interpret respectively to “Hacked past times HighTech Brazil HackTeam” together with “I honey you, beautiful lilliputian daughter ...best friend I've always had.”
#SupremeCourt website hacked? pic.twitter.com/NmBgNBGU3b— Sruthisagar Yamunan (@sruthisagar) April 19, 2018
No 1 has notwithstanding come upward out to claim responsibleness of the assail but based on the text, it is believed that Brazilian hackers, specifically the hacker grouping HighTech Brazil HackTeam, are involved inwards the hacking of the website.
While the messages had been removed 1 time the hack got reported, the website remained inaccessible for quite a while.
The SC officials reportedly admitted that the website had been “non-functional” since 11:35 inwards the morning, but did non comment on whether the website was hacked or not, maxim that they were “not authorised” to verbalise on the issue.
This assail comes after, before this month, several government websites were believed to hold upward hacked, but were after reported to hold upward the results of a glitch according to the government. The websites that were affected include Ministry of Defence, Election Commission, Department of Public Enterprises, etc.