TCS becomes new victim of hackers

In a fresh instance of rising number of cyber crimes, India's biggest softwareexporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) failed to remain insulated from cyber attacks.

Hackers hacked the website of the company which claims to have high internet securitymechanism for protecting its data. Going yet another step, the hackers also put its domain name on sale by taking advantage from the loopholes in the security system.

It is not the first instance of in the country when hackers challenged the digital securitynetwork in the country. Many government websites including the website of telecom regulator TRAI (trai. gov. in) and PM Manmohan Singh's website was played by the hackers in the recent past.

TATA's website continued to flash message 'this domain name is for sale' for hours and it was only around at 7am when the company restored the portal. Techie-buzz. com claims that a France based hacker were involved in this malicious exercise who tried to compromise the server through DNS hijack.

A TCS spokesman informed, "The TCS website www. tcs. com was disrupted. Subsequently, it has been restored and is functioning fine. None of the servers were compromised. Initial investigation reveals a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar's end. Further investigations are on."