Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai police’s probe into hacking of its website has hit a wall as the UP-based IP address it procured turned out fake. The team is trying to get further details about the accused.
A cyber team along with private IT experts has been trying hard to get details to reach the culprit but without success. A police official said, “Twice this month, the website got hacked and someone is playing with the police website which is not a healthy sign. The culprit should be taught a lesson.”
Two days after its website was hacked, the Navi Mumbai police’s investigation revealed that the hacking had been carried out from abroad by a person or group that had hacked the website earlier on July 10. The police said that the hacker must be a "master" as the website's security protocol had been beefed up after the first incident of hacking.
The police has found the IP address of the server used for hacking the website however it has not disclosed the country from where the act was committed as the probe is still underway. As a preventive measure, the police website will use the National Informatics Centre’s server to make it safer. The police said that the Friday hacking did not cause any harm and the website was restored after the incident.
The police website was hacked by an unknown group suspected to be of Turkish origin. The hackers put up a big picture showing several protesters holding Turkish flags, a soldier, and a message in Turkish saying, ‘A nation could only be so brave, July 15, 2016.’ The clip on July 10 was not political or communal but had a picture display with music in a foreign language. The breach was detected within 30 minutes and rectified by a Pune-based web designer. DCP (crime) TusharDoshi said, “Our team has been working on the matter since the website got hacked the first time. We have got the IP address, which is the same as the one in the previous incident. But it is a fake address so right now, our team is finding another trick to get the culprit.”
