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The homepage was defaced with a warning "Hacked Pak Cyber Attackers" and with a slogan at the bottom "Pakistan Zindabad" followed by "nothing harmed just defaced and deleted some vulnerable files, we are Muslim hackers, we hack for cause, not for fun; contact us."
While experts at NIT had shut down the website for sometime to revive and repair it back within few hours, TOI was told that the website was hacked by Faisal Afzal of Pakistan.
Aszal's Facebook page also displayed his latest post on Thursday "National Institute of Technology Raipur Official Website HaCKED AND ROOTED" with a mirror link of the site's page of how it looked like when it was hacked.
Talking to TOI, Mohit Sahu a cybersecurity expert in state capital said that he received a message from black-hat hacker Faisal Afzal on Facebook saying that he had hacked NIT's website.
"He had been accessing NIT's website since a year and had never been tracked down. By hacking, Afzal wanted to show how vulnerable the websites are which can be easily hacked. He had earlier hacked NIT Kolkata's website also, link of which is posted on his wall. The mirror link is what the hacker posts and keeps as log about the sites he had hacked and how they looked like afetr hacking." Mohit said.
Though the site has been recovered but the danger still looms as the loophole hasn't been repaired. "The hacker still has the 'buzz' and he can hack whenever he want to again. Buzz is an open source content management system mostly used by amateur users and they are in millions. Once it gets leaked or decoded, anyone can hack the sites." He warned.
Mocking at digital India week, Afzal has also reportedly warned that Pakistani hackers were planning to hack many more sites of government of India and that how laidback India is in its technological security.
According to Mohit, most of the Chhattisgarh government websites made on 'drupal' were highly vulnerable and easily hack-able. "Pak hackers had mentioned about sites' vulnerability many times in the past and have threatened of continuous hacking from now onwards."
While Modi government has been boasting about digitizing India and digital lockers, such threats and incidents of hacking raise serious concern over cybersecurity. Cyberexperts also fear that information related to Aadhar Cards which carry details of people, were also leaked in the cyberworld.
Mohit says that though United States may follow digitization massively, they know how to remain technically safe and are updated, India needs to be updated and safe too.
Meanwhile, as per NIT officials Afzal has not destroyed or deleted any of the files and they would discuss the loophole with cyberexperts to resolve the problem.
Earlier, in April, Pak hackers had hacked Chhattisgarh government's environment conservation board website, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board, Raipur (C.G.) where the home page was defaced with slogans of "Free Kashmir... Freedom is our goal" and photographs of violent protests in J&K and the burning of a tricolour flag. The site was hacked by a the so-called "Team Pak Cyber Experts.'
Digital India Week: Pakistan hacker defaces Chhattisgarh NIT website - The Times of India
