Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Public Security website was reportedly hacked this week, after a Google search for the website displayed explicit and pornographic terms, in an embarrassing incident for the government body.
The incident, which occurred on Thursday, saw sections of the ministry’s website that were meant to host official government information, including details about senior staff, replaced with sexually explicit language when searching for the website on Google.
Screenshots of the defaced content quickly circulated across social media.
Despite the gravity of the breach, no official statement has been released by the ministry or the government at the time of writing.
“This little embarrassment could be the work of a hacker having some fun, an insider getting a bit too creative with metadata, or someone with a grudge and access to admin privileges,” one IT specialist told Economy Next.
