• TCS Website Hacked, Domain Name Up For Sale

    TCS Website Hacked, Domain Name Up For Sale

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 08, 2010 1800 hrs IST

    The hack is believed to be a DNS Redirect

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Indian software giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) has witnessed the hijacking of its official website www.tcs.com. The hackers not only attacked the website but also allegedly changed its domain name and put it up for sale!

The hackers posted a "For Sale" message on the site, written both in French and English. The hack is believed to be a DNS Redirect rather than a full-fledged one. This is similar to the one that rocked Twitter last year

This attack raises a lot of questions on the Indian IT industry and the overall Internet security in the country. If top IT firms cannot create a hacker-proof website, what more can we say?  

However, the website has now been restored and is working fine.


 

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(19) Comments
Anonymous
,UK, on Feb 09, 2010 01:11 AM
Still not working + emails to tcs are being bounced back as undeliverable. TCS can look forward to more of these hacks because of the way they treat their employees in USA and Europe, we are replaced with cheap labour from India
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Tanuj Lakhina
,Delhi, on Feb 09, 2010 09:39 AM
Yeah their lotus mails also was affected and not configured properly after the hack.
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anti-anonymous
,london, on Apr 12, 2010 07:21 PM
interesting that you could be replaced by "cheap" labour. looks like you over estimated your worth as your company did not feel you were worth giving that much money! what value did you give to your company??
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Ashish
,Bangalore, on Feb 16, 2010 04:54 PM
TCS have just won a global contract with Sony,hackers can not stop us from getting to the top
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Brett
,NYC, on Feb 16, 2010 09:02 PM
I hope this isn't true - it'll mean more people out of work
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victim of dumb
,where notihng creative happens, on Feb 12, 2010 01:57 AM
JCS treats its employees as billing objects and nothing more than that. what all these companies is nothing more than copy pastes Indian companies will never do creative work like Microsoft or Google(although we have human resources capable of doing more than that), they only serve their dumb clients for dollars
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shobhna
,ahemadabad, on Feb 09, 2010 05:38 PM
Shame on TCS and the TCS associates what they doing........
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Avinash
,Chennai, on Feb 09, 2010 07:07 PM
Hello Shobha, this is not in hands of TCS and its associates. It's DNS redirecting which doesn't mean hacking TCS' server. Infact they hacked the DNS server. Please try to know wat it is actually before blaming.
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nikhil dhawan
,noida, on Feb 09, 2010 12:44 PM
Oh unbelieveable.!
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Kaustuv
,Bangalore, on Feb 09, 2010 10:56 AM
Cheap does not mean worse Mr. Anonymous. Companies from USA and Europe dont come to India for nothing. You would have noticed that most hackers are from those country.
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sriknath
,UK, on Feb 09, 2010 08:23 AM
This is not in hands of TCS , its the DNS which is not in Hands of TCS..Please make sure to address this news properly first ...
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Gejza
,Budapest, on Feb 09, 2010 01:41 AM
Now it is some Google Earth advert "Google Earth PRO" in French.
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Sandesh Raote
,Mumbai, on Feb 08, 2010 06:43 PM
No its still showing the same message..i tried it now at 6.42pm ..
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Siva
,London, on Feb 09, 2010 12:03 AM
Service provider should be blamed for DNS re routing.
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Panduranga R
,Guadalajara, Mexico, on Feb 08, 2010 11:18 PM
I think, this is something do with the DNS providers, since its just DNS redirection to another webpage, blame should be on the DNS and Network service providers not on TCS
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Saurav
,Manchester, on Feb 08, 2010 10:45 PM
It is not working from UK
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Ankit
,Athens, on Feb 08, 2010 09:21 PM
No its not working still. The same 'Domain For Sale' page is still there
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kanika
,kochi, on Feb 08, 2010 08:52 PM
I tried at 8:30 it seems to be working fine now
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Guest
,US, on Feb 08, 2010 08:38 PM
It is still down.
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