Another suspect arrested for hacking President’s website
August 30, 2016 10:34 am
Another suspect has been arrested on the allegation of hacking the official website of the President, police said in a statement today (30).
The suspect who is a 26-year-old from Moratuwa was arrested by a team attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this morning.
Police on Monday also arrested a 17-year-old teenager for hacking into President Maithripala Sirisena’s official website and posting a message calling for the postponement of A-level examinations.
The unnamed suspects were taken into custody under the Computer Crimes Act and on conviction faces a fine of 300,000 rupees ($2,000) and up to three years in jail.
The attacker had removed the home page of the website and replaced it with a demand that the President postpone the ongoing GCE Advanced Level examinations or step down.
Sri Lankan websites had been hacked in the past, but this was the first time that a teenager had been arrested under the Computer Crimes Act of 2007.
(With inputs from AFP)
