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BSNL site hacked, files 'safe' with hackers

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BANGALORE, INDIA: The government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) website has come under yet another hacker attack. This time it was in the early hours of Sunday.

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Team_H4tr!ck, which has claimed responsibility for the attack, said in its post that the files were 'safe' with them. 

Eversince, the BSNL has restored its website.

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A Telecom Talk report said that it first spotted the attack at 2.21 am on December 4.

The hacker group's site has announced that the attack was carried out by five of its members identified by their IDs: aliases x-c0p, nginx-adm1n, enc0der, k3rnel and sm0ky.

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Describing the security of the site as a 'shxx' the hacker group has posted a blunt warning stating that, "If you do not update it, we will meet again>:)"

The same group has also claimed to have successfully hacked about 3,000 sites which include some popular Indian sites too.

They include: atishatravelladakh.com, autoclaveindia.com, bachchokiduniya.com, delhiwebhosting.co.in, himalyanyatra.com, indian-escortservices.com, indiasbestmodels.com, spanishtranslationindia.org, chinesetranslator.co, indianwineindustry.com

Recently, 'Pakistan Cyber Army', a hacker group, attacked the BSNL site and reportedly got details of about 10,000 subscribers. The data breach resulted in leakage of email IDs, addresses and other details of customers.

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