Hackers infiltrate Infy Website

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies Ltd., one of India's biggest software

companies, said on Monday that computer hackers had infiltrated its Website and

disrupted its banking products site. "We realized it this afternoon. One

section of the Website, the banking unit, was hacked," an Infosys

spokeswoman told Reuters.

She said the site that was infiltrated contained information about its

software products for the banking industry. The spokeswoman said the company had

taken steps to restore the Website and was investigating the cause of the

hacking, but it was too early to comment on the identity of the hackers.

Infosys, which employs about 9,000 software engineers, has its headquarters

in Bangalore, India's technology capital. Pro-Pakistan hackers have in the past

broken into Indian Websites, usually with slogans or statements criticizing

Indian policies on Kashmir, the Himalayan zone disputed by Islamabad.

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