The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) was in for a ‘cyber-shock’ on Monday after its official website was found hacked. The mischief makers were traced to Indonesia, the KSEB officials said.
KSEB’s IT personnel toiled hard on Tuesday to set things right for www.kseb.in. By Tuesday afternoon, the website was back in circulation.
‘’We discovered the problem on Monday evening. Our people in Kozhikode traced the hackers to Indonesia shortly afterwards,’’ KSEB’s safety commissioner and IT head Angus Sudley Cardoza said.
The hacked site read ‘Hacked By DBoyz VVIP (RileksCrew).’ Like its sister government sites, www.kseb.in, a new website launched less than two years ago by the KSEB, is hosted by Kerala State IT Mission.
KSEB had pinned its hopes on the homepage alone being mauled, and the contents remaining untouched. KSEB officials have reported the incident to the authorities, but it’s a tough job booking the culprits in such cases.
The state-run power utility’s is the latest government website to be targeted by hackers from abroad. In fact, the KSEB has had experience with online vandals before also.
The last time, the hackers were from the Ukraine, Cardoza said.
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