Malaysia Airlines website hacked by islamists

The official Malaysia Airlines website has been hacked by a group claiming to support Islamist terrorist organization ISIS.

On accessing the website, users were presented with a picture of a lizard, which read "Error 404 - the plane could not be found" and "Hacked by Lizard Squad -- Official Cyber Caliphate”,informs Lenta.ru with the reference to CNN. The browser tab also read "ISIS will prevail."

The airline added the issue has now been resolved with its service provider and the system is expected to be fully recovered within 22 hours.In a post on its Facebook account, the airline denied its internal servers, which contain passenger information, had been compromised. It said it's the airline’s Domain Name System (DNS) that had been hijacked, redirecting the users to the hackers' website.

Source and image: Lenta.ru / Malaysian Airlines