BENGALURU: Two days after proving its commercial satellite launch capabilities, the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) on Sunday found the website of its commercial arm, Antrix, defaced by hackers.
The home page of the Antrix website was replaced with parts of an article talking about 300 kids from Cape Town getting American Major League jerseys at cheap prices from China.
Isro officials confirmed the homepage of the website was defaced but denied there was a security breach. "The matter has been taken up senior officials of Antrix and there will be an inquiry to find out who is behind the hacking," Isro officials said.
VS Hegde, chief managing director of Antrix, was unavailable for a comment.
It was only the homepage that was defaced and other pages of the website remained intact and were running. The hacked content remained online for over 10 minutes. By evening, the homepage was restored.
On Friday, Indian Space Research Organization's had proven its commercial launch capability by successfully launched five satellites for the UK. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C28) lifted off the Space Centre in Sriharikota , placed three identical DMC3 optical earth observation satellites, an auxiliary earth observation micro satellite (CBNT-1) and one technology demonstrator nanosatellite (De-OrbitSail), built by UK based SSTL, in the designated orbits .
Although it was alleged that Chinese hackers were behind defacing the website, however, officials didn't confirm the information.
Website of Isro's commercial arm Antrix hacked - The Times of India
The home page of the Antrix website was replaced with parts of an article talking about 300 kids from Cape Town getting American Major League jerseys at cheap prices from China.
Isro officials confirmed the homepage of the website was defaced but denied there was a security breach. "The matter has been taken up senior officials of Antrix and there will be an inquiry to find out who is behind the hacking," Isro officials said.
VS Hegde, chief managing director of Antrix, was unavailable for a comment.
It was only the homepage that was defaced and other pages of the website remained intact and were running. The hacked content remained online for over 10 minutes. By evening, the homepage was restored.
On Friday, Indian Space Research Organization's had proven its commercial launch capability by successfully launched five satellites for the UK. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C28) lifted off the Space Centre in Sriharikota , placed three identical DMC3 optical earth observation satellites, an auxiliary earth observation micro satellite (CBNT-1) and one technology demonstrator nanosatellite (De-OrbitSail), built by UK based SSTL, in the designated orbits .
Although it was alleged that Chinese hackers were behind defacing the website, however, officials didn't confirm the information.
Website of Isro's commercial arm Antrix hacked - The Times of India
