PIC website hacked

Do hackers really call themselves "Haxor"? Feels like something a 12 year old would do.
 
Wordpress installation hosted on a virtual machine at IS - that is just asking for trouble. For what it's worth - a number of IS virtuals have been taken over by a botnet (not the PIC one though):

This was detected by a TCP/IP connection from 196.33.27.76 on port 15131 going to IP address 82.165.38.175 (the sinkhole) on port 80.

The botnet command and control domain for this connection was "ladymsicalovs.net".
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Back in May I informed SITA about a botnet having taken over their network and have never received any form of acknowledgement. Just looking at it now, they still have issues - http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=164.151.130.61 (http://whois.domaintools.com/164.151.130.61).

There should really be an independent body in SA (like the Electronic Frontier Foundation) which challenges e-services in this country - after all, billions of rands in tax money wasted. Then again PIC has lost a ton of many in Abil and Sanral - not so?
 
The PIC was contacted for comment but could not immediately answer questions on whether any private data was compromised during the hack.
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I wonder if a government department will even know what was compromised...
 
Just got this statement from the PIC:

The Public Investment Corporation strongly condemns the hacking of its website on the 17 August 2014 by some unscrupulous elements. This website is hosted externally with a reputable internet service provider (ISP), and therefore this event had no impact on the PIC’s internal ICT systems. We can confirm that no information that compromises the operations of the PIC has been acquired through this act. In an effort to curb such criminality, the PIC will open a criminal case with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to investigate this case further.
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To curb that criminality, patch your ****ing systems you bunch of morons.
 
[1] a public facing website being hacked is hardly a catastrophe
[2] SITA failing to act on a warning however is a massive failure on their part - but SITA is in such a disarray that this should not be surprising
[3] "an independent body in SA (like the Electronic Frontier Foundation) which challenges e-services in this country" would be awesome but there is a finance shortfall I'm afraid and it would be nice if the not-independent bodies played their part as well
 
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