Hacking some of the most influential and important websites is a trend being followed all around the world for quite some time now. We have seen it happening with some big websites around the world and in the country as well, and while sometimes it’s done by someone with a strong positive/negative message, most of the time it’s done by some extremely idle people to have some fun.
Yesterday, Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University website got hacked and this hacking was done by someone who wanted to wish their beloved pooja for their birthday.
The official website of Jamia Millia Islamia University has been hacked. pic.twitter.com/SgCkdKYggz
— ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2018
The hacker changed the interface of the website for a ‘Happy Birthday Pooja’ gif and we don’t know about you but that’s one great gesture for someone’s birthday. The Internet was quick to react on the same and jumped on the bandwagon to react to the situation. While some called out the competency of the college IT department regarding the security of the website, other’s simply did the most obvious thing to do in this kind of situation, make a joke about it. And, that’s exactly what the people did, check out the reactions over here.
आज रात ही जल्दी से इसे केक खिला दो पूजा ,
कयोंकि अगर पुलिस के हतथे चढ़ गया तो देगे इसकी सुजा 🤣😂😁 pic.twitter.com/jgADFCukyw— आंदोलनजीवी 🏹 (@Aaandolanjeevi) May 21, 2018
— Waseem (@washasan) May 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/PseudoProphet/status/998660548404232192
https://twitter.com/Lohitaksa/status/998662048027262976
Happy Birthday to 'To whom soever it may concern' wali Pooja 🎂🎂🎂😺😺😺😺🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂😺😺😺🐅🌺🌺🌻💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐https://t.co/rDEfkyCk4j
— Neha S. (@Neha_ns1) May 21, 2018
Happy Birthday to 'To whom soever it may concern' wali Pooja 🎂🎂🎂😺😺😺😺🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂😺😺😺🐅🌺🌺🌻💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐https://t.co/rDEfkyCk4j
— Neha S. (@Neha_ns1) May 21, 2018
Someone hacked Jamia Milia Islamia University’s website with Happy Birthday Pooja GIF on it.
Wow as if there is only one Pooja in entire world. 😂😂
Happy Birthday Btw pic.twitter.com/cwSeG7q3yq
— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) May 22, 2018
#JamiaOfficialWebsiteHaked jmi website hacked and the message is #HappyBirthdayPooja majnu ji is very serious and sensitive
Ab tu maan jawo laila ji mera matlab pooja ji. #DigitalIndia pic.twitter.com/5KuWgTBKFn— Abdul Aasim (@Rangmaam) May 21, 2018
Aurat ka chakkar Babu bhaiyya.
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Jamia Website Hacked 😊😂
.#jmi #hack pic.twitter.com/Lee7PKbIit— Abdul Rehman (@AligArkhan) May 21, 2018
He: happy b'day
She: where is my b'day gift?
He: o wait,
(Hacked Jmi website)
Here it is…#jmi #aashiq pic.twitter.com/VCzPOAFw55— jameel akhter (@jameel0691) May 21, 2018
@JamiaMillia The website has been hacked and reflect b'day wishes to some Pooja.
JMI is a reputed institute. Its website must be secured enough.
And the culprit must be punished for this for this offense. pic.twitter.com/IyisMTT1Bc— Nouman Khan (@Nouman__Khan) May 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/mdarifk740/status/998707557047947264
No person or group has yet claimed the responsibility for the hack, and even the university officials are yet to give a formal statement on the situation. However, the website is back to normal and working like before. Jamia is not the first one to see a cyber attack like this one, in early April, the Supreme Court’s website too was allegedly hacked by a Brazilian group, which resulted in “hackeado por HighTech Brazil HackTeam” written all over their web page.
All of these timely hacks are indeed funny and all, but they also challenge one important question, why are websites of reputed organisations not secured like one?
Jyotsna Amla