The
website was reportedly defaced to display a message celebrating India's
independence.
Pakistan's government website (Pakistan.gov.pk)
reportedly got hacked on Thursday (3 August) by an unknown hacker going by the
pseudonym Ne0-H4ck3r.
The website was also reportedly defaced to display a
message celebrating India's independence and play the Indian national anthem.
According to reports, the attack involved the hacked
website displaying an image of the Indian national flag's Ashoka chakra.
However, the website has since been restored.
Although there is no official statement on the
matter, according to the official Twitter account of
Pakistan defence, the hacked website was allegedly hosted on an insecure HTTP
server.
The attack on the Pakistani website comes just a week
prior to both India and Pakistan celebrate their 70th year of independence.
Pakistan and India gained independence from the British on 14th and 15th August
1947, respectively.
This is not the first time when one of Pakistan's
government websites has been hacked. Last year, the website of Pakistan's
Ministry of National Health Services by hackers who claimed that the attack was
a show of solidarity with the grieving families of the victims of the Bacha
Khan University terror attack in January 2016.
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