Well not exactly...I was browsing among the Government Web sites, when I came across our Ministry of Education web site (see the image on right). I was shocked to see that it had been Hacked by some hackers. I quickly checked the Google cache for the snapshot they had created (see the image on left side). It was dated 15 Aug 2007, 14:18:06 GMT. So this site had been hacked during last 3 days. The hackers intentions are not very clear from what they had done. May be they just wanted to deface a government web site for fun.
It seems only the home page of the site had been hacked.
On further research I came across Zone-H which has an archive of Web sites that have been hacked. I was amazed to see the number of Sri Lankan Government web sites that had been subjected to defacement by various Hacking groups.
| Date | Attacker | Domain | OS | View |
| 2007/07/30 | RitualistaS | mcg.mpi.gov.lk | Win 2003 |  |
| 2007/01/27 | Dr.Jr7 | dmc.gov.lk/external.asp | Win 2003 | |
| 2007/01/06 | yas | mail.samurdhi.gov.lk | Linux | |
| 2006/12/04 | DeltahackingSecurityTEAM | primeminister.gov.lk/record/delta.htm | Linux | |
| 2005/12/12 | Devil Code | mpdinor.gov.lk | Win 2000 | |
| 2005/10/16 | Tz4r | muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum | Linux | |
| 2005/03/14 | batistuta | muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum | Linux | |
| 2005/02/06 | H4ck3rsBR | slelections.gov.lk | SolarisSunOS | |
| 2005/02/06 | H4ck3rsBR | sec.gov.lk | SolarisSunOS | |
| 2005/02/06 | H4ck3rsBR | ports-aviation.gov.lk | SolarisSunOS | |
| 2005/02/06 | H4ck3rsBR | npd.gov.lk | SolarisSunOS | |
| 2005/02/06 | H4ck3rsBR | trc.gov.lk | SolarisSunOS | |
| 2004/01/24 | Red Eye | ibsl.gov.lk | Win 2000 | |
| 2003/06/19 | [ LunixO ] | moe.gov.lk | Linux | |
| 2003/06/07 | Digital lords | moe.gov.lk | Linux | |
| 2002/09/27 | PaGgY | hinduministry.lk | Win 2000 | |
| 2001/04/08 | SadoR | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/04/04 | Silver Lords | customs.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/04/01 | Silver Lords | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/04/01 | PoizonB0x | customs.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/03/31 | PoizonB0x | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/03/18 | LOUCOS.BR | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2001/02/26 | Alien00 | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2000/12/24 | Silver Lords | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2000/12/23 | Silver Lords | customs.gov.lk | Windows | |
| 2000/06/04 | EhW | erd.gov.lk | Windows | |
Still most of the above sites are not back online or have not been repaired completely. Any way most of our government websites are ill designed & not maintained well. Almost all of them use tables rather than CSS for layouts & are very poor in design, compromising their usability.
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