Indian hackers did again!

Posted by Arsalan

November 18, 2008

Today, India-based hackers hacked the official site of OGRA (Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority). Details are yet to come but what I know for now is that they did not only deface the website. They hacked and deleted all the data of the website. It’s surely a great loss for OGRA and the Pakistani government.

The group behind this hacking is HMG, who call themselves as “Guards of Hindustan”. They share the ideology of extremist Hindu organizations like Shiv Sena. This group HMG is very active in Orkut and they have hacked a number of Pakistani communities and after taking ownership, turned those communities into anti-Pakistan ones. I have “privilege” to interact with HMG members twice.

The first incident was that when I had one-to-one correspondence with a member of HMG in Orkut through exchange of scraps. He was a professional hacker and claimed that India has an edge over Pakistan when it comes to IT security and hacking. While giving reference from my article about the same subject, I gave references that it’s the other way. Anyway, that debate was inconclusive.

The second experience was that when HMG directly sent me an email and threatened to hack one of the sites I administer. Since the theme of the site is related to Pakistan-India peace, it goes against the ideology of HMG, who does not believe in friendship with Pakistan and instead favor attacking Pakistan and make it part of India. I took their threat very seriously and took extra measures to make the site secure.

It’s for sure that Pakistani hackers will retaliate now. Let’s see how much high profile that victim website will be.

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