Chennai: The hackers had left the city cyber crime sleuths in sixes and sevens after entering into the websites of the Tamil Nadu police, ruling AIADMK and at least three private television channels. “We are almost shield-less. The hackers keep sneaking into all these sites to deface them,” disclosed a senior police official on Tuesday.
In mid-2012, a group called ‘Anonymous’ had accessed the confidential data in the grievances database of the Tamil Nadu police website relating to complaints received online from the public and action taken on them. The entire ‘stolen’ database was published on a Facebook page.
But the hackers seems to have changed gears fast and hit prominent websites since NoÂvember 1. On Deepavali, they hacked and defaced the official website of the ruling party.
Though the police arrested a techie who tried to enter illegally into the site after the site was restored, the sleuths are yet to nab the hackers who hacked it first.
The same group had hacked the website of private television channel Puthiya ThalaiÂmuÂrai last weekend. PictÂures posted on the hacÂked site had messages like ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ in the same fashion that it appeared on the hacked website of the AIADMK.
On Tuesday, another Tamil channel, Lotus TV, was hacked. “RestoÂraÂtion work is on,” the scroll on the website claimed. The police had managed to help restoration of the sites by using expertise that is outsourced.
“We believe most of the hacking was done by groups based abroad,” a police official said.
