A Pakistani hacktivist group going with the handle of Team Madleets have hacked and defaced five (5) official Google domains designated for Republic of Burundi few minutes ago. The defaced domains include 3 Google Search Engine domains, Google Images and Google Translator.
All domains were defaced by three different hackers from Team Madleets going with the handle of 1337, H4x0r Hussy and Invectus, left with deface page along with a message all hacked domains. The deface message was expressed in following words:
- Struck by 1337, H4x0r Hussy and Invectus! Google Burundi Has been STAMPED by PAKISTANI LEETS We are TeaM MADLEETS. Pakistan Zindabad!
Screenshot from Google Translator shows following error:
It seems as if hackers were able to hack Google domain after breaching the systems of country’s domain registrar.
1337 who is member of Madleets took the opportunity to deface google.co.bi, google.com.bi, google.bi.
H4x0r Hussy defaced the images.google.bi while Invectus left the translate.google.bi domain defaced.
Links of all hacked domains along with their mirrors are given below:
- www.google.co.bi
- http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20826444
- www.google.com.bi
- http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20826454
- www.google.bi
- http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20826422
- www.translate.google.bi
- http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20827129
- www.images.google.bi
- http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20827157
This is not the first time when Google has its domain hacked. In past Google Palestine, Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena were also hacked by breaching domain registrar of respective countries.
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa.
At the time of publishing this article, all hacked Google domains were taken offline and not working.
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