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

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

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