Two cyber-attacks on Ministry of Aviation website

Islamabad: The website of Ministry of Aviation has been subjected to second cyber-attack in few hours and the website has been hacked once again. The foreign language messages kept appearing on the website and it completely disabled.

According to the details, there were two cyber-attacks on the Ministry of Aviation website within a few hours. The first time the website was restored after the attack, however it was hacked again for the second time after which its restoration is underway.

It is reported that the IT experts of the Ministry of Aviation have started the restoration of the website as it has been completely inactivated. And all the information on the website disappeared.

In this regard, Ministry of Aviation officials said that IT experts have started work to restore the website.

It is pertinent to note that a few years ago there was also an incident of Indian hackers hacking the websites of several ministries including the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Division, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Communications.