Comments on: Airtel website hacked ?

By: bigi

bigi — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:34:42 +0000

the portal airtel.in is not available for the last two days as you have mentioned

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:31:07 +0000

its working fine here

By: Venu

Venu — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:45:53 +0000

I was not able to access at least for 10 min and the “srilanka” URL kept popping up !

So something did happen; probably wasn’t in that state for long

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:06:37 +0000

I’m also able to access it. Not sure if it was hacked.

By: Venu

Venu — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:56:47 +0000

Jeet,
In fact after I published the post and checked on the portal, it was back online. So the portal remained hacked only for a brief time I believe.
Was just wondering why the URL had to have “srilanka” !!

Raj,
Yes, I do know that Airtel has outsourced most of its IT activities to IBM and if this portal is also developed and maintained by them, not sure what to say

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:15:48 +0000

I visited airtel’s website on 30th and it looked okay. Even I noticed the change of domain and the weird URLs. They even have those dumb “landing” URLs

By: Abhijeet from Jeet Blog

Abhijeet from Jeet Blog — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:01:44 +0000

Venu, currently the airtel website is working good so not sure whether it was hacked. But that could be pretty scary considering the fact that Airtel is a very big brand and invest heavily in all forms of I.T security.