Hyderabad: Just a day before the budget for 2012-13 financial year was to be presented in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, an unidentified hacker broke into the official government website budget.ap.gov.in, sending the state administration into a tizzy.
The hacker, apparently from a foreign location, created additional pages dz.htm and x.htm to the budget.ap.gov.in website and named himself as BBOY1, sources in the state Information Technology and Communications Department said.
Besides, 26 other official websites of different state government departments, including the important government orders site goir.ap.gov.in, were also found to be hacked and additional pages dz.htm and x.htm were added to each site, 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, according to IT&C Department....
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