Supreme Court website that went down minutes after the apex court declared that there will be no independent probe in the judge BH Loya case, has come back online.
News of the website potentially being hacked broke the internet on Thursday after a social media user posted some screenshots of the crashed site on the internet which started a frenzy of suspicious tweets. The image was surrounded by text that seemed to suggest the website was hacked by some Brazilian hackers.
#SupremeCourt website hacked? pic.twitter.com/NmBgNBGU3b
— Sruthisagar Yamunan (@sruthisagar) April 19, 2018
“Hackeado por HighTech Brazil HackTeam (hacked by HighTech Brazil team),” read the message on the screenshot that was shared by many on Twitter and WhatsApp.
Two hours later, a message appeared on the Supreme Court website: “Site under maintenance”. Some web security experts have claimed that the website could have received heavy traffic just as the Supreme Court ruling on the judge Loya case came. This came after the public mocked the frequent hacking of Indian websites due to lack of appropriate security measures.
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