India's Promising Politician Web Site Hacked …….

The servers and website hosting information of constituencies of Rahul Gandhi and his mother, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi were hacked ..The systems used to store huge databases in terms of constituencies, individuals and trends etc.

Initial investigation reviled password hacking of email account and in turn translated to DNS server address manipulation. It was a well-planned attacked, where Email IDs created for password recovery was also hacked. As experts reset the password for amethi@hotmail.com and accessed the account, they found several suspicious emails. "These emails were sent by domain management console, godaddy.com (of amethinet), to an unknown person on his request regarding password recovery," says the FIR.

Officials said the recovered emails revealed the times at which the IP address password recovery requests were generated by the hacker. "The unknown hacker has cracked all of our domain management console passwords using password recovery email account amethi@hotmail.com and has made changes in DNS zone files so that it got redirected into some other websites," the FIR said.

Amethinet and raebareli were created specifically to address the constituents, but the former, after hacking, opened onto www.pdmce.ac.in, the website of an engineering college in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. When Rahul's team checked the domain name system (DNS) of the website, it showed an IP address different from that of Rahul Gandhi's network. "Amethinet domain is registered with godaddy.com domain and when officials tried to log in to the domain management console, it was not working," the FIR said.

The FIR was filed under 66 Information Technology Act. According to the Act-

1. Whoever with the intent of cause or knowing that is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means, commits hacking. 
2. Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years, or with fine which may extend up to two lakh rupees, or with both.