Tuesday, February 9, 2010

TCS Official Website Hacked

Tata Consultancy Services official website www.tcs.com has been attacked and hacked. The hacker has left a message suggesting the website is up for sale.

At the time of writing of this post if you visited the official url of TCS, www.tcs.com; this is message you are greeted with. Click for more

 

Strangely the hacker has put up a email Id out there in case someone is interested in buying the domain.

It is probably unrelated but there has been a rise in official websites being hacked into with messages. This is known as defacing homepages. Only recently Indian government had admitted that China based hackers had attacked official computers. But those were more sophisticated and meant to attack computer systems rather than deface any websites.
DNS Attack?

It seems TCS is facing DNS attack of some kind as the homepage opens fine with Pagewash. Here is a video to explain.

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