Elite security force hacked
Bangladesh’s elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has arrested a student and three of his friends for hacking into its website, a spokesperson for the unit said on Sunday.
RAB intelligence officers traced computer science student Shahi Mirza, 21, after he hacked into their website and taunted the battalion with messages that he signed in his own name, Abul Kalam Azad said.
"He hacked into our website, boasting on the home page that the site had been hacked by Shahi Mirza," he said
Azad said Mirza and his friends faced at least 10 years in prison under Internet crime laws enacted in 2006.
In his messages Mirza accused the government of doing little to spread information technology in the impoverished country.
"The government has not done anything for IT. Yet it has enacted a law to combat cyber crime," one message said, according to the private bdnews24.com news agency.
"You don’t know anything about cyber security. You also don’t know how to protect yourselves (from Internet crime)," it said.
The RAB is Bangladesh’s top security force, formed by the country’s last elected government to combat specialised crime, Islamic militants and Maoist rebels.
Rights group Odhikar has accused the battalion of more than 500 extra-judicial killings since it went into operation three years ago.
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