Cyber Crime
Catch If You Can: Pakistani Hacker Posted Free Kashmir Slogan After Defacing Indore Police Website
INDORE: The official website of Indore Police was hacked on Tuesday. The website was allegedly defaced by Pakistani hackers who had written anti-India and free Kashmir slogans. The hacker identified himself as Mohammad Billal.
The hacker had replaced the names and pictures of senior officers of Indore with their propaganda message,
This incident of defacement has set alarm bell ringing. The technical team is in action mode, which is busy restoring data of the website.
Guruprasad Parashar, the Crime Branch’s assistant superintendent of police, was quoted in several media outlets as claiming that a team is working to track down the IP address from which the website was tampered with.
According to sources, the hacker substituted the words “Hacked by Mohammed Bilal team PCE – Free Kashmir, Pakistan Zindabad” for the names of prominent police personnel, including the DGP of Madhya Pradesh and the inspector general of police (IGP) of Indore. According to accounts, the hacker flipped the national flag on the website. The hacker also left a message on the Indore Police’s website, “Catch.if.you.can@hotmail.com.”
Mohammad Bilal previously hacked the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Delhi unit’s website in November 2019. Bilal hacked the website of Andhra University in April 2018, and he was also implicated in the hacking of the BJP’s Goa unit website in October of the same year.
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