E-housing start-up Housing.com has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Now their website got hacked.
The maverick ex-CEO and co-founder Rahul Yadav recently exited the company after a lot of controversy and while the company was dealing with bad publicity, the company’s website got hacked and supported Rahul Yadav.
The hacker defaced the homepage of the company, which showed a mathematical equation and a number of hashtags.
The website is back up and running now, but this incident has left the company and its investors red-faced.
The hashtag ‘HousingDown’ which was at the top of the hacked website started to trend soon after as people took to Twitter with the news.
Some ridiculed the company.
The hackers had showed their support for the ex-CEO of Housing.com Rahul Yadav and he found support among Twitter users as well.
The Public Relations team of Housing.com is facing a tough time right now with all the start-up’s misadventures.
There was an investors meeting going on when the website was hacked. The timing of the hack was pretty accurate as a publicity stunt for the start-up, as well as for Rahul Yadav.
Housing.com really needs to pull up its socks and get its act together to avoid future embarrassments like the one today.
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