Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's website hacked into
Mumbai:
Rajya Sabha member and industrialist Vijay Mallya's personal website was hacked into, allegedly by Pakistani hackers, with "dire" threats that India's cyber space was not secured posted on it.
The liquor baron's spokesperson Prakash Mirpuri said on Sunday that a police complaint will be lodged on Monday.
"Dr Mallya's website www.mallyainparliament.com has been hacked [into] and the Pakistani flag has been placed with a dire message from an organisation known as the Pakistan Cyber Army," the spokesperson said.
"A police complaint will be filed with the cyber crime as soon as the (cyber) cell opens on Monday," he added.
Mallya said he was shocked. "This morning when into my site, I was shocked to see the Pakistani flag and the message," he said.
"What was more shocking to me was to see that it was done by some Pakistani outfit."
Mallya said he would report the incident to the Union government on Monday.
The defaced site says 'feel the Pakistan {sic}' with 'danger' signs and adds: "we are sleeping, not dead."
"This is payback from Pak Cyber Army in return to the defacements of Pakistani sites! You are playing with fire! This is not a game kids. We are warning you are secure in this cyber space," the site says.
A cyber expert said such incidents usually occur ahead of Independence Day celebrations in both countries. "Some websites belonging to Pakistan get defaced while some sites of India get hacked.
The hackers leave their mark to show their strength. Moreover, they target well-known websites so that the hackers get huge publicity," cyber expert Vijay Mukhi said.
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