Hackers claiming to be
from the "Lizard Squad - Official Cyber Caliphate" group have
attacked the official website of Malaysia Airlines.The national carrier's
homepage currently shows a photograph of a lizard in a top hat and tuxedo. Continue..
Malaysia Airlines confirmed its
site was compromised but said customers' bookings and data
were not affected.
The airline is still
recovering from two disasters; the disappearance of MH370 and shooting down of
MH17.
On Monday morning, the
main page of its website was replaced by the words "404 - Plane Not
Found" and "Hacked by Lizard Squad".
"404 Page not
found" is the common error message displayed when a website
cannot be loaded.
Initially the words
"ISIS will prevail" appeared in the browser tab for the page, but
that has since disappeared.
It is not clear why
Malaysia Airlines has become the target of a cyber attack nor what connection
the hack has to Islamic State, the militant group sometimes referred to as ISIS
which has declared an Islamic caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq.
Lizard Squad claimed
on Twitter that
it would release data from Malaysia Airlines, but did not specify what
information it might have.
'Not
been hacked'
Malaysia Airlines
confirmed in a statement that its "Domain Name System (DNS) has been
compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website".
But it said its own
web servers were intact and the website itself had not been hacked into.
It said "this
temporary glitch does not affect [customer] bookings" and user data
"remains secured". It added that it would take 22 hours to restore
the website.
In March last year,
flight MH370 disappeared from radar and is believed to have crashed 1,800km
(1,100 miles) off Australia's west coast. A few months later MH17 was shot down
over Ukraine, killing everyone on board.
The hacker group Lizard
Squad previously claimed to have disrupted Sony and Microsoft operations,
with gamers unable to log on to XBox Live and PlayStation platforms over
Christmas.
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