Indian budget website defaced, data remains untouched

In a major embarrassment to the state government on the eve of budget, hackers on Thursday broke into a server, maintained by information technology (IT) department, and added pages to websites of 27 government departments, including the crucial budget.ap.gov.in. The hackers, apparently from a foreign location, posted messages in Urdu and English.

The hacker created additional pages dz.htm and x.htm and named himself as BBOY1, sources in the information technology and communications department said.

The important government orders site goir.ap.gov.in was also hacked and additional pages dz.htm and x.htm were added, the sources said. The websites were "temporarily shut down for facilitating incidence response and analysis" but the sites have not been defaced nor was data affected, the IT&C department said in an official release.