So far, the websites of many in India were part of an ongoing cyber war between Indian and Pakistani hackers groups.Anonymous put your logo and a message from the country;s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the website National Computer Center The New Hacker.
The page could not be accessed on Tuesday, but a version of Google confirmed that it had been marred by Anonymous.
"There is no use securing. There is no use of spending on forensic. Get this message clear Mr. Prime Minister and others", the message read.
The NIC is responsible for promoting and implementing IT projects including e-governance projects in the country.
A cached image on Google search suggests that the hacked part of the site was primarily an e-governance newsletter of NIC. On Tuesday this part of the NIC site was "under maintenance".
NIC did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. There was however no data stolen by the hack, or any damage done, according to a government expert on cyber security. "This was more a playful threat, that exploited some weaknesses of the NIC site," the official said on condition of anonymity.
A large number of Indians have rallied behind social activist Anna Hazare and a yoga guru Baba Ramdev in a fight against corruption in India. Ramdev's fast in Delhi was broken up over the weekend by the police, and he and his supporters were evicted from the venue.
Anonymous said in a message on Twitter that the NIC site had been defaced because of violence against Ramdev by the central government. Earlier it extended an invitation through Twitter for users to join in an operation against corruption in India.
Anonymous has also established an Indian mission page on Facebook, and Twitter accounts to continue the fight against corruption in India. Another high-profile hack in the country, top Indian websites Investigation Agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, has been compromised in December of Pakistan group, which said it has taken vengeance for similar attacks on the website of Pakistan. India and Pakistan have long dispute over Kashmir, which has spread online.
CBI is not returned to the site weeks after the hack. Indian Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Sachin Pilot told Parliament in May that the government has adopted various measures to detect and prevent cyber attacks and espionage. Factor in the safety instructions issued by the Government of sensitive information stored in systems that are connected to the Internet, ; he said.
The Government has prepared a contingency plan to deal with cyber attacks and cyber-terrorism for the implementation of all ministries and departments of federal and state and problem areas, the pilot said. Ministries and departments were also invited to review their IT systems regularly.
Often, these guidelines are not taken seriously, and a large number of hacks have been avoided, an analyst who requested anonymity.
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