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Three South African government websites hacked

Posted by: Mohit Kumar onSunday, December 09, 2012
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"H4ksniper" hacker claiming responsibility for disrupting three South African government websites. This morning after hack, website of The social development department opened to a black page with a window containing the animated graphic “Website hacked by H4ksniper”.

Another message on the deface page was "Hello South Africa :D , Bad News For You IM BACK ! ..You Messed With Us & Now You Must Suffer..From Morocco with love."

On asking, hacker said that the reason of hack is " We all know that SA is the first supporter of the [República Árabe Saharaui Democrática] RASD and the enemy of Morocco since a long time and we are hackers and our goal is defending our country..."

From statement, its clear that hacker belongs to Morocco and claiming to defend it from its enemy.

Defaced domains :
http://www.dsd.gov.za/
http://www.population.gov.za/
http://www.pnc.gov.za/

Mirror Links:
http://www.th3mirror.com/mirror/id/146186/
http://www.th3mirror.com/mirror/id/1461867/
http://www.th3mirror.com/mirror/id/146188/

Social development spokeswoman Lumka Oliphant said the department was aware of the problem. She said, “No sensitive information is on the website,”.

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