Supreme Court website Hacked

New Delhi, April 19: The website of the Supreme Court of India (supremecourtofindia.nic.in) was inaccessible on Thursday afternoon after it was reportedly hacked 30 minutes after the court delivered the verdict in the BH Loya case.

"This site can't be reached," said a message on the home website of the Supreme Court, informing that the site was offline.

Cert-IN, the Ministry’s emergency response team, has advised the Supreme Court on steps to be taken to restore the website and will also analyse the details of the incident, said a Ministry spokesperson.

The website will remain down for about two hours before it is functional again.

A fortnight ago several government websites crashed, leading to speculation that Chinese hackers were behind it. However, the national cyber security chief Gulshan Rai said the 10 websites hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) went down after a hardware failure.