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The website of Bharatiya Janata Party‘s website got hacked at the time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking an oath to office in Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The hackers of the website changed the content of the website to ‘Beef’. The hackers attacked the website on Thursday.
The hackers replaced several pages of the website with the recipes of beef dishes, accompanied by the message of Hacked by ‘Shadow_V1P3R’.
On the homepage, the navigation bar has been edited and the word BJP has been replaced with ‘Beef’. For instance, About BJP has been changed to About Beef, BJP history has been changed to BEEF History.
The BJP Leadership page was replaced by Beef Leadership with a photograph of a meatloaf.
The cow is considered sacred in Hinduism hence BJP’s ideology discourages the consumption of the meat. While Modi was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India, there were several cases reported of lynching in parts of India in which the victims were beaten or lynched on the suspicion of consuming or selling beef.
Majority of the victims were Muslims, who have been tortured at the hands of the Hindu extremists.
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This is not the first attempt at hacking the BJP website, the hacking attempts are rampant on the website of the ruling party. A similar hacking attempt was made on the website in March.
The website went dysfunctional for two weeks before it was fully restored.
It remains offline with this message from the admin which reads: “We’ll be back soon! Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. We’ll be back online shortly!”
The website after being hacked showed the meme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Markel. It finally came back online on March 21st but only showed one static page.