Kapil Sibal's personal website hacked

Telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s personal website has been hacked and defaced by groups alleging internet censorship and curbs on free speech.

The website www.kapilsibalmp.com was yesterday attacked and the contents altered to show the minister in poor light. Sibal, who represents Chandni Chowk in Parliament, uses this portal to interact with his constituency.

While most of the website has been restored, certain sections like blogs, gallery, speeches and conversation were still not working.

While no official comment was immediately available, a source in the minister’s office said the website was an old one and had not been updated for some time.

 

The Twitter account of Anonymous India (@opindia_revenge) said Sibal’s site was getting “trolled”.

“The time to sit silently is gone. Call your friends and get them to protests sites,” said a link posted on the Twitter handle. Meanwhile, the government today said 294 websites belonging to various ministries and government departments were hacked in January-October 2012.

“A total number of 201, 303, 308 and 294 websites belonging to various ministries and departments in the government were hacked during the year 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (till October), respectively,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said.