Isro Chairman Dr A S Kiran Kumar Tuesday said there was no information
loss following the alleged hacking of the website of the space
organisation's commercial arm Antrix Corporation Ltd.
"In terms of
information lost or any specific thing, absolutely nothing has happened
because it is already going to be shifted to our Isro site which is
actually under construction," he told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.
Kumar
said that when a site is under construction, it is more vulnerable to
hacking. "It is a case of Pharma hacking and not manual hacking," he
said.
"So basically, what happens is that when some sites are
under construction, they are more vulnerable. Many times advertisement
people try to look for some credible sites through which they can put
their information," he said.
The site, being managed by a Mumbai-based website provider, was in the process of being shifted to Isro server, he said.
An
Isro official had earlier said in Bengaluru that the site appears to
have not been hacked and that the problem might have occurred due to a
purposeful attempt by someone to link the home page to another page.
The website was reportedly hacked yesterday and work to fix the problem was taken up by Antrix and it was blocked.
The
official had said there was no cause of worry for the website does not
contain sensitive data that could be detrimental for India's security.
Antrix
is Isro's marketing arm for promotion and commercialisation of space
products, technical consultancy services and transfer of technologies
developed by Isro.
It provides space products and services to
international customers worldwide. Its clientele includes EADS Astrium,
Intelsat, Avanti Group, WorldSpace, Inmarsat and other space
institutions in Europe, Middle East and South East Asia.
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