Hacktivists take down Thai police websites (Updated Wed)

Hackers took over four police websites, including the metropolitan police, on Monday night, with messages demanding justice.

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Activist: Someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change, especially someone who is a member of an organisation

Hacktivist: Someone who hacks into, i.e., connects to someone else’s computer secretly and often illegally to  find or change information on it, for political reasons

Wednesday morning update

Here's a little more information from today's Bangkok Post story

National police spokesman Dechnarong Sutticharnbancha claimed the hackers represent a group of human rights activists living abroad.

"They just inconvenienced us, but didn't do any harm or steal any information," Pol Gen Dechnarong said.

By 7.20pm Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police website was only partially restored, still showing a movie website template around police news and the the Police Clearance Certificate Centre was still showing database errors. The Phichit Police Office and Office of Communication and Communication Technology of the Royal Thai Police were back to normal, although the latter site was missing its identifying logo banner.

On its latest Facebook page, Anonymous said that 14 Thai police websites had been attacked. Of those it listed, nine were inaccessible on Tuesday.

Tuesday evening update:

Pol Maj Gen Siripong Timula, commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division is reported as saying that the hactivists involved were from abroad and they stole no information from the websites they hacked. They will likely be charged under the Computer Crimes Act.

Thai police websites hacked

Online reporters

Hacktivists took over four police websites, including the Metropolitan Police, on Monday night, with messages demanding justice.

The hacked websites showed a black page with the image of a white mask with blanked-out eyes and the words, “Blink Hacker Group, Failed Law, We want Justice and Greetz Myanmar Black Hats”, according to Facebook page Polamuang tortan Single Gateway: Thailand Internet Firewall.

The affected websites were the Metropolitan Police http://metro.police.go.th; the Pichit Police Office http://phichit.police.go.th; the Police Clearance Certificate Centre http://www.pcscenter.sb.police.go.th; and Office of Communication and Communication Technology of the Royal Thai Police http://ictgeneral.police.go.th.

The last two websites were still inaccessible around 1pm Tuesday.

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