While India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking oath at his swearing-in ceremony in May 2019, a hacker called Shadow Viper bypassed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Delhi website and filled it with photos and recipes of beef instead. You’d think that this experience would be enough to reveal all vulnerabilities of the website, that still doesn’t use the https certification, which aids security. But alas, the hackers have struck again and this time it’s not as light-hearted as how to make beef chilli fry.
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Following the recent hack, delhi.bjp.org is now automatically rerouted to its main website bjp.org. Some sources say that this is not the second, but the third time something like this has happened, speculating that during the two-week period in March 2019 when the website claimed to be “under maintenance”, it had actually been hacked and led to a loss of data by the BJP.
Ever since the Modi-led party scrapped Article 370, effectively taking away the special powers given to Kashmir claiming to integrate it into India, tensions between India and its neighbouring country Pakistan have flared up, with a Pakistani minister even threatening to bomb anyone who sides with India over this issue.Follow Shamani Joshi on Instagram.