PTI social media faces cyber attack

[Leader]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social media team suffered a major hack attempt on its Facebook pages today on Friday 3rd February 2012 at 3:00pm. A hack attempt was made on a key PTI volunteer administrators email account which gave the hacker critical access to the administration of the multitude of facebook pages being managed by our volunteers. In a very systemic method the hacker removed numerous admins from all our pages and also resorted to deletion of some critical Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Facebook pages which were a source of information for its supporters in Pakistan and worldwide.

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has filed an official complaint with National Response Center for Cyber Crimes [NR3C] to thoroughly investigate this issue, with a request to NR3C to collaborate with administrators of Facebook to assist in the identification of the IP addresses of the culprit and hold them accountable.

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PTI Social Media team has simultaneously reached out to the administrators of Facebook to recover the pages to their original status and sincerely hope that Facebook will assist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Social Media team in this process.

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[Birbal]

People please make an effort to use secure passwords and avoid phishing attacks!!!

 

[Areesh]

CIA+RAW+MOSSAD+Black Water+MI6

No China+Pakistan+JUD+LET+ISI+Maoists.

 

[darkinsky]

stop crying u people, facebook pages get hacked some tinme and there is no need to make big bopla abt it

and why for frack sake you guys have multitude accounts, why not only one page

 

[AstanoshKhan]

PTI Facebook Pages Hacked, Millions of Fans Lost

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s more than 30 fan pages were hacked today in a single go, costing the political party millions of fans go wasted.

No one has taken the responsibility for this massive hack down of PTI’s facebook fan pages.

Citing President of the Insaf Students Federation in Karachi, Arsalan Ghumman, The Express Tribune reported that the official Facebook pages of PTI leader Imran Khan, the student wing Insaf Students Federation, and several, more including that of Dr. Alvi were hacked into and hidden from the public’s eye.

“The pages were hijacked at 3 pm on Friday. We are in touch with the Facebook authorities to recover them,” he said.

On other hands Facebook is notorious for taking such cases non-seriously.

Reportedly, hacker first cracked the gmail id of Mr. Imran Ghazali, the web manager of PTI social media team before cracking into facebook pages of political party.

It is unclear so far if pages were deleted or are kept private (hidden from public) by the hacker.

If not recovered, this is going to be a big blow PTI’s short term plans. This incident yet again reminds us that we are living in a country without cyber law.

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PTI's popularity hitting some nerves, they're resorting to hire rented-hackers now.

 

[AUz]

I just found out this afternoon...

Man o man ... I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo piss$$$edddddd offff

Now idiot Pml (N) guys can copying PTI and are coming towards E-activism....PML (N) politicians are running FB pages now huh! I am sure that PML (N) has something to do with this hacking..Not saying that Nawaz ordered it (He probably don't even know how to operate social media ) but someone is pml(n) is definitely involved. Probably MSF? But still that is an attack on OUR rights to express our views in favor of IK!!!!!