The hackers who claimed to be Indians threatened Bangladesh with a cyber war if any Pakistani terrorist enters India through Bangladesh.
Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder said they have already restored the websites and cyber-crime experts in Rab and Special Branch of Police are working to detect the hackers.
"Earlier such incidents took place but the hackers were detected. Now we are also hopeful of tracing the hackers," he told The Daily Star last night.
After the sites were hacked they flashed some Hindi letters and "JAI HIND!".
The text on the hacked sites reads, "Secure border between INDIA and BANGLADESH If any terrorist send by Pakistan came via Bangladesh route then I will be danger to YOU Cyber War will be started this is demo We don't want more 26/11 in India. GOVERMENT LOOK AT IT ELSE CYBER WAR WILL START ....WE ROOTED AND ----- YOUR ISP ! " "EMIL INDIAN HACKER HackeD Your System [sic]."
"Mission is now complete. Who will be next," reads a message on one of the hacked sites. The message also reads, "If you need help contact me: ."
In instant reactions, Yeafesh Osman, state minister for science and ICT, told The Daily Star that the related body has started working to get the sites back up.
He said the hackers broke into the system--apparently to get "secret information".
Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, director intelligence wing of the Rapid Action Battalion, said, "We have been informed of the matter and are working to track down the hackers."
The government recently launched websites for 64 districts in a move to achieve Digital Bangladesh by 2021. Access To Information (A2I) project of Prime Minister's Office maintains the websites.
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A year before I had some investigation over this Emil Indian Hacker. They had hacked several other sites like some Australian education site and threatened them to not to give any trouble to Indian students. Well, from my technical observation, this hacking group is able to hack only the CMS Joomla! based site. This CMS is a freeware and each and every site this Emil is hacking was joomla based. I am so much shocked in the case that why the webmasters for government websites are using this freeware? As far as I know the government is paying a high price for every site but what they are using is just a free stuff. Before ensuring the security of our government site, there should be a probe against the webmasters who developed these sites.
: Kaalpurush
The funniest thing is that the kid is messing up with a country government demonstrating a HOTMAIL account.
You made my day. The funniest story of the day. I mean if you are concerned about that kid's hacking, ask his e-mail service provider to fetch out his technical details, log/ browsing history! e-mail senders, contract list.... lol
I guess it's someone who is nothing but an IRC addict who got an extra boost of brainwashed patriotism and some tools to crack into a specific design loophole.
Only advanced programmers from Turkey, Sweden, China, Russia etc can play with these fire-balls..I don't think a toddler can handle such a big elephant-dung!
Remember, the Chinese hackers played with America's moral sentiments a while ago.
: SNH