BJP Delhi Website Hacked, Served With Beef As PM Modi Takes Oath
The political party’s Delhi website was hacked on 30 May and filled with content around beef and some recipes.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking his oath for his second term on 30 May, 2019, BJP’s Delhi website was hacked and filled with content around beef items. The hacker or hacking group who goes by the handle Shadow_V1P3R has even have put out ingredients and recipes for certain beef dishes as well.
The website, which doesn’t carry a https certification (critical for secure websites), was seen carrying a mast with the mention of Shadow Viper, the likely hacker group responsible for hacking and putting up the beef content on it.
The hack was first spotted by a French security researcher, who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on Twitter.
The hackers have basically replaced most of the content on the website with Beef items, Beef History, Beef Constitution and Beef Leadership as well.
Hacking of government websites have become the go-to modus operandi for hackers to share their message with the country and its establishments, time and again.
On Thursday, at the time of writing this article, some links were directing to the main BJP website, basically allowing BJP’s IT team to fix the issue at the back. And after few hours, we spotted the website running in its original form, with all the beef-related content taken down.
However, the website still doesn’t carry a https certification, which means another hacker can easily break into the system and put more random content on it.
Even after almost 12 hours to the hack, nobody has claimed responsibility for flushing beef content on the Delhi website of BJP.
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