Supreme Court’s official website hacked

ISLAMABAD: A hacker on Tuesday defaced the official website of Supreme Court.
The hacker inserted derogatory and abusive remarks against the apex court and Chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry after gaining access to the website (www.supremecourt.gov.pk).
The court has taken notice of the hacking and initiated probe into the incident.
Official of the apex court noticed that the website was compromised around 08:00am, but believed that the hacker may have gained access earlier at night.
According to Mumtaz Ali, the network administrator at the Court, programmers were trying to restore the website back to normal.
“Our webpages are hosted on the government-owned National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) servers, and managed by their technical staff. Our programmers are working to resolve the issue,” said Ali.
According to the network administrator, the court’s website only contains general information pertaining to judges’ profiles, the court’s annual reports and cause lists.
The possibility of sensitive data being compromised did not exist, he added.
The hacker, who calls himself ‘The Notorious Zombie_Ksa’ and belongs to a group named Pakbugs, left a message on the site’s homepage, claiming to have left the data intact, and that no other damage was done to the site.
The hacker claimed that he had tempered with the web pages to get the attention of the chief justice.
Among other things, he had asked the chief justice to order Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block access to all pornographic content on the internet.
The group also claimed to have hacked the FIA and PTA’s servers in the past.