Hackers deface Met Office website

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ISLAMABAD: Hackers defaced part of the official website of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) — also known as the Met Office — on Saturday.

The `Farmers’ Weather’ section of the website appeared to be the primary target of the hackers, who also posted political slogans on the landing page. In addition, the ‘Daily Weather Report’ feature on the website was also inoperative on Saturday.

The hacker or hackers, identifying themselves as ‘Hunter Gujjar — Team Pak Cyber Activists’, posted the popular Pakistan Tehreek- Insaf slogan “Go Nawaz Go” on the website and left the message, “Pakistan Zindabad — Jago Pakistanio” (Long Live Pakistan — Wake up Pakistanis).

The PMD functions under the Aviation Division of the Cabinet Secretariat, which is headed by Special Assistant to Prime Minister Shujaat Azeem.

PMD Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Hanif told Dawn that hacking was an illegal act and a formal complaint had been lodged with the website operator.

“Our website operator is a government agency and they are working to mend the damage, but we have officially warned them their contract would be terminated if security measures were not placed to avoid such attacks in the future,” Dr Hanif said.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2015

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Kalbe Ali is a senior staff reporter for Dawn based in Islamabad, with nearly 20 years of field reporting experience. He covers a diverse range of topics, including the internet, IT and telecom sectors, as well as religious affairs.

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Samar Javed

Oct 11, 2015 11:02am

Never knew they had a website.. But being hacked - at least it would have been made more interesting. As of now it is as dull and jejune as PTV news, seems the weather patterns too are being ordained by the govt itself.

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Saad

Oct 11, 2015 11:26am

Go Nawaz Go is not a political slogan!

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saeeds

Oct 11, 2015 06:48pm

PTI and JI both main intention is to destroy Pakistan. JI always used burn shops and public places in past and now it's grown up kid PTI destroying public places also.

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Mudassar

Oct 11, 2015 07:36pm

Dear Hacker. No need to hack the met office site and deform it. Met office is doing it themselves. It is the most unmanaged and useless site

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Daood

Oct 11, 2015 09:05pm

Childish act. Use user skill for something better.

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