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Hacker breaches Rahul cyber-security
This is one aam admi outreach Rahul Gandhi will not appreciate. In April, when the Congress general secretary was in the thick of poll campaigns, hackers were busy breaking into two web servers created by him for family constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Passwords were illegally accessed and the internet address tweaked to redirect web users onto an engineering college website.
The web servers – amethinet and raebareli – are maintained from 12 Tughlak Lane, Rahul Gandhi’s bungalow, round
the clock by his own team of technical experts. On April 8, some of them noticed suspicious activity on the network. The site was getting redirected and the email accounts blocked. An FIR was lodged, stating, “officials found that amethi.net website is not accessible”. A case was registered under 66 Information Technology Act. The Special Cell of Delhi Police is now on the lookout for the hacker.
“Technically, the hacker cracked the whole domain system of the server and used an email to get the passwords,” a senior officer who is part of the probe said. Amethi site opens on to engg college
New Delhi: Between April 4 and 19, a hacker cracked two web servers created by Rahul Gandhi to reach out specifically to the people of Amethi and Rae Bareli.
When technical experts of Rahul’s own team at his 12 Tughlak Lane bungalow tried to access amethinet, they were redirected to www.pdmce.ac.in, the website of an engineering college in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. When they checked the domain name system (DNS) of the website, it showed an IP address different from that of Rahul Gandhi’s network. “Amethinet domain is registered with godaddy.com domain and when officials tried to log in to the domain management console, it was not working,” an FIR registered with Delhi Police said.
The systems at 12 Tughlak Lane maintained information on the constituencies of Rahul Gandhi and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, sources said. The young MP’s house is also a hub of policymaking for Youth Congress and the systems store huge databases in terms of constituencies, individuals and trends, they said.
Email IDs created for password recovery was also hacked, said the complaint. As experts reset the password for amethi@hotmail.com and accessed the account, they found several suspicious emails. “These emails were sent by domain management console — godaddy.com (of amethinet) — to an unknown person on his request regarding password recovery,” says the FIR. Recovered emails revealed the times at which IP address password recovery requests were generated by the hacker, Rahul’s team said.
The web servers – amethinet and raebareli – are maintained from 12 Tughlak Lane, Rahul Gandhi’s bungalow, round
the clock by his own team of technical experts. On April 8, some of them noticed suspicious activity on the network. The site was getting redirected and the email accounts blocked. An FIR was lodged, stating, “officials found that amethi.net website is not accessible”. A case was registered under 66 Information Technology Act. The Special Cell of Delhi Police is now on the lookout for the hacker.
“Technically, the hacker cracked the whole domain system of the server and used an email to get the passwords,” a senior officer who is part of the probe said. Amethi site opens on to engg college
New Delhi: Between April 4 and 19, a hacker cracked two web servers created by Rahul Gandhi to reach out specifically to the people of Amethi and Rae Bareli.
When technical experts of Rahul’s own team at his 12 Tughlak Lane bungalow tried to access amethinet, they were redirected to www.pdmce.ac.in, the website of an engineering college in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. When they checked the domain name system (DNS) of the website, it showed an IP address different from that of Rahul Gandhi’s network. “Amethinet domain is registered with godaddy.com domain and when officials tried to log in to the domain management console, it was not working,” an FIR registered with Delhi Police said.
The systems at 12 Tughlak Lane maintained information on the constituencies of Rahul Gandhi and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, sources said. The young MP’s house is also a hub of policymaking for Youth Congress and the systems store huge databases in terms of constituencies, individuals and trends, they said.
Email IDs created for password recovery was also hacked, said the complaint. As experts reset the password for amethi@hotmail.com and accessed the account, they found several suspicious emails. “These emails were sent by domain management console — godaddy.com (of amethinet) — to an unknown person on his request regarding password recovery,” says the FIR. Recovered emails revealed the times at which IP address password recovery requests were generated by the hacker, Rahul’s team said.
