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Indo- Pak cyber-war heats up

Pakistani hackers appear to have hacked into the Press Club of India's website as a retaliation to the PPP website being brought down by their Indian counterparts

BS Web Team
Last Updated : Oct 09 2014 | 5:52 PM IST
In what appears to be a rebuttal to Indian hackers hacking into Pakistan’s People Party’s (PPP) official website, Pakistani hackers appear to have hacked into the Press Club of India’s website.
 
With escalating tension at the border post Pakistan's repeated ceasefire violations, leaving civilian casualties on both the sides, the conflict seems to have found its way into cyberspace as well.
 
Hackers claiming to be from Pakistan left the following message of the site
 



Earlier, Indian hackers, ridiculing Bilawal Bhutto's remarks on "taking back entire Kashmir from India",  had left the following messages on PPP’s official website:






The cyberspace war, which till now has been just showmanship, threatens to escalate to dangerous levels if financial or personal information is targeted further ahead. 

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First Published: Oct 09 2014 | 5:20 PM IST

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