Arun 795 Report post Posted February 7, 2010 TechCrunch.com February 7, 2010 The website of Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software vendor, has been hacked. The hacker has posted a "For Sale" message on the site for a brief time, which is written in both French and English. Ironically, the company produces security systems software. This hack will definitely lead to total embarrassment for the software firm who thrives on creating software and security systems day in and day out. The hack is believed to be a DNS hijack, which is similar to the breach that Twitter succumbed to last year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
postashish 3 Report post Posted February 7, 2010 lol..short tcs shares tomm..! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 7, 2010 ^^^ update:- 2hours back original website in online. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sadikk 301 Report post Posted February 7, 2010 Shocking.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vishalmcp 8 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 ^^^ update:- 2hours back original website in online. for me its still showing same screenshot posted by Arun.. still showing as hacked.... shocking news for TCS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kunal Hemrajani 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 lets buy that domain name now though just checked it..its back on now.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
savramesh 37 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 there is no "sorry for the inconvenience" message in their website.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raccoon 53 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 That would be like publicizing an embarrassing incident even more. They probably decided to act as if nothing happened. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 ^^^ update:- 2hours back original website in online. for me its still showing same screenshot posted by Arun.. still showing as hacked.... shocking news for TCS. I see that you are accessing through a US gateway, not sure whether you are physically there or its your company's gateway. Many people in US did say that it was showing the hacked page for a longer time, which suggests that it could be a DNS hijack itself. Update: The hackers changed the domain name to 205.178.152.154 from 216.15.200.140, re-pointing the name server (NS) records of the company's website. According to a cyber-security expert, the fraud may have been done by breaking into the NS or the registrar account of the company. The name servers of the Domain Name System (DNS) are the most used name servers today. The DNS servers are important as they translate humanly memorable domain names (e.g. tcs.com) and hostnames into the corresponding numeric IP addresses (216.15.xxx.xxx). It is the second most important internet name space, used to identify and locate computer systems and resources on the Internet. It is stated that the changed domain ID, 205.178.152.154, shows the ISP name as Network Solutions LLC, which is also the registrar of tcs.com. Again, the experts believe that it may have occurred due to the entry into TCS's registrar account using a compromised password. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACS 130 Report post Posted February 8, 2010 TATA ki pant thodi aur neeche aa gayi.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
