The website of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has been hacked by a person who claimed himself a genius and 10 times better than Rab IT experts.
Contacted, Inspector General of Police Nur Mohammad declined to make any comment about the incident.
Rab Director General (DG) Hassan Mahmood Khandkar said they are trying to know who's behind it. “We do not know who did it. Until we find it out, we are not sure whether it is done out of fun or a criminal act.”
“The hacking incident won't create any security hazard as it is an open website”, the Rab DG said, adding: “The motive behind this act is yet to be ascertained. We hope the site will be restored by tomorrow.”
Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed, additional director general of the elite force, told The Daily Star that someone has hacked the website on Thursday through an unauthorised entry.
“Our IT experts have been trying to find out the origin, the computer which is used for hacking the website, and to detect the person behind it”, the additional DG said. “It is not clear to us who did it and why.”
Talking to The Daily Star, director of Rab Media Wing Commander SM Abul Kalam Azad said, “We hope that our IT experts will be able to restore the website by tomorrow.”
During the access to www.rab.gov.bd, the website read: “Hacked by Shahee_Mirza”.
The hacker wrote, “You do not know what the cyber security is or how to protect yourself.
Listen, hackers are not criminals. They are 10 times better than your experts. We are genius beyond your imagination.”
Rab officials said they have enough expertise in IT and will be able to detect the hacker.