Express News Service By

In a suspected case of cross-border cyber terrorism, the online edition of the Marathi daily Tarun Bharat,an RSS newspaper, was hacked by alleged Pakistani hackers on Tuesday.

According to TBD Executive Editor Gajanan Nimdeo, the needle of suspicion pointed towards Pakistan since the hackers had altered the home page by inserting a Pakistani flag, besides posting a message that the website was hacked by ‘Shaheen 28’. Although the TBD is a Vidarbha newspaper, it caters to a global audience.

“We were not aware of the hacking incident till it was pointed out to us by our readers in foreign countries who began to call us up since today (on Tuesday) morning,” said Nimdeo.

According to him, the e-paper has readers in 90 countries and it registers around 95,000 hits on an average. After the hacking incident was noticed, the website was shutdown for 90 minutes before it became functional. “We had restored the site by 8.30 am. We are now carrying out more improvements in our web security to ensure that such a breach does not happen again,” said Nimdeo.

He added that they had informed the Nagpur Police Cyber Cell wing of the incident.