New Delhi: Hackers broke into the Congress`
official website and replaced part of Sonia Gandhi`s profile
with some objectionable material in a cyber attack coinciding
with the party chief`s birthday.
"The hackers could penetrate deep inside the website and
changed one paragraph," AICC Computer Department chief
Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said.
Singh said that Congress websites -- aicc.org.in,
congress.org.in -- were subjected to the attack prompting the
party to "put them down" this morning. The third website
inc.org.in remained unaffected.
Singh, a former MP, said that the party websites have
been under frequent attacks from hackers, who had some time
back tried to break into the websites thrice one night.
The hacking came to light as the servers hosting the
websites collapsed due to massive re-direction of internet
traffic.
Singh said a detailed check of the servers has been
carried out and the party will return to the cyberspace soon.
The cyber attack comes at a time when a controversy had
broken out over Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal`s comments on
monitoring content on websites.
Sibal had talked about evolving guidelines and mechanisms
to deal with "unacceptable" online content.
The defacement of Congress websites comes on a day when
party chief turned 66.
PTI
