KATHMANDU: It has been revealed that a government website was hacked even though Cyber Bureau of the Nepal Police was well aware of it.
According to Cyber Bureau, Bhotahiti, Kathmandu, a hacker group earlier had warned that it would hack the website of the government offices. The technical staff of website admin of Telecom had been cautioned following the warning.
The hacker group namely @satan_cyber_god on Tuesday hacked the websites of the Ministry of Agriculture, National Muslim Commission, Central Library and made their login details public.
The cyber bureau has initiated further investigation after the Satan group started stealing data by hacking the websites.
Police Inspector Umesh Prasad Sah of the Bureau said they are investigating the case by demanding data from the service provider of Twitter.
Earlier, this group had made public details of 16,000 customers of Foodmandu and 170,000 customers of internet service provider Vianet
Meanwhile, Vianet has asked its customers not to open links sent on their mobile message box for viber activation and receive phone calls from abroad
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