The websites of two popular Tamil television channels, including ‘Puthiya Thalaimurai,’ were hacked on Saturday.
Pakistan
Haxors Crew (PHC), the group that allegedly hacked the AIADMK party
website on November 2, has claimed responsibility for this as well in a
posting made on the defaced homepages.
The management of ‘Puthiya Thalaimurai’ channel has lodged a complaint with the Chennai Police.
When
this reporter visitedwww.sunnetwork.in, the homepage of the Sun Group
was also found defaced (photo). The homepage of all the three websites
looked similar, giving room to suspicion that the same group was
involved.
The suspects said on the defaced homepage
that they wanted justice and peace. They also wanted the release of the
“innocent kid,” in an apparent reference to P. Eswaran (27) of Bangalore
who was arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Chennai
Police, on charges of attempting to hack into the AIADMK party website.
Additional
Commissioner of Police (CCB) R.S. Nallasivam said Eswaran was not the
real hacker. But he had made at least 300 attempts to enter the
administrator’s account of the AIADMK party website.
“He
admitted to have made several attempts to hack into the party website.
We seized the laptop and other tools used to commit the offence. Efforts
are on to apprehend the suspects who actually hacked these websites…we
have sought the assistance of Anna University, National Informatics
Centre and others in the investigation,” he told
The Hindu
. Hours after their website was hacked, ‘Puthiya Thalaimurai’ put up a
homepage saying that the portal was undergoing technical upgrade and
would be back soon.
The AIADMK website, police sources said, was managed by a team based at Ambattur here.
“They
did not have adequate security systems to prevent hackers…but the fact
that the websites of two leading media houses have also been hacked is
worrisome. We are following some specific clues that may lead to the
arrest of the suspects soon,” a police official said.
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