30 August 2016 08:38 pm
Entering illegally to the website the hacker had also demanded the President to reconsider the decision to move A/Level exam to April from August and find a solution to the University students’ issues.
He was ordered to be detained under Probation at Makola Children’s Home till September 2 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today.
The other 27-year-old suspect, Janith Madushanka, was also remanded till September 2.
The CID filing a B Report, informed court that the suspects had entered illegally to the official website of the President President.gov.lk on August 25 and had altered the data of it committing offences that fell under Computer Offences Act.
The CID said that the President’s website was operating online with the telecom company and there were only five limited and protected entrances to enter the website.
The CID said another 37 websites have been hacked by the suspects using a broad hacking network.
They said the first suspect was operating using his FB account named as ‘Arrow.lk’ and his online hacking name was found as ARROW.
The 26-year-old suspect had associated with the teenager providing the background platform to hack into websites by creating a forum named as Yakadaya.
Meanwhile, the prosecution had recovered two IP numbers during the investigation and one number is located abroad.
The sources said that an international hacker residing in Bangladesh had also connived with the two Sri Lankan suspects in hacking the President’s website. (Shehan Chamika Silva)