MCMC shrugs off Operation Malaysia, says ‘little impact’
(The Malaysian Insider) – The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) dismissed today the “little impact” caused by attacks on at least 51 government websites, which saw the official portal of the federal administration going down since early this morning.
Confirming that 41 of the targeted sites were disrupted, the MCMC said that it does not expect “the overall recovery to these websites to take long as most websites have already recovered from the attack.”
“We gauge that there has been little impact on Malaysian users as a result of this attack,” it said after monitoring the attacks which started at 11.30pm last night.
Operation Malaysia, launched by the international hacker group known as Anonymous, succeeded in bringing down its main target, malaysia.gov.my, at about 4am this morning.
While website recovered after 11.30am today, the attack announced earlier this week also spawned hacks on other sites, which saw Sabah’s tourism website (sabahtourism.com) and the Tour Malaysia travel guide (tourmalaysia.com.my) being defaced.
Hackers also claimed that details of more than 3,400 users were extracted from Sabah Tourism and posted the particulars of 392 accounts before the tourism agency regained control of the site.
The attacks that began shortly after midnight have affected other government websites including those of the information ministry, the fire and emergency services department, and the land public transport commission.
The MCMC added that its own site (skmm.gov.my) was targeted but said the attack was not successful.
