Anonymous Indonesia has breached a Myanmar tourism site in
retailiation against the government's treatment of the Rohingya people.
The hacktivist group announced late-Wednesday in a Twitter post it had defaced the tourism site, mm.myanmar.net, which provides travel and location information, lodging and sights.A message left in the defacement said the site's data was safe and that the message was meant for the Myanmar government. "We call on the
government of Myanmar to stop the violence and the expulsion against
Rohingya based on humanitarian," the message read.
The defacement also contained a link to a news report by The Nation
on how the Myanmar government considered the Rohingya race as illegal
immigrants and had refused to grant them citizenship rights.
In a Twitter reply
on Thursday, Anonymous Indonesia apologized for the defacement and
explained it merely wanted to inform the Myanmar government not to expel
and oppress the Rohingya race. "They are also part of the people of
Myanmar who have long settled in Myanmar," the post read.
Visitors to mm.myanmar.net on Wednesday evening were greeted with the following message from Anonymous Indonesia.
The Web site was restored when ZDNet Asia accessed it at 2pm Singapore time.
Anonymous Indonesia also launched a series of attacks on Indonesian
government sites last week which affected, among others, the Law and
Human Rights Ministry, the Social Affairs Ministry, the Business Competition Supervisory Commission,and the Central Statistics Agency, a separate report by The Jarkata Post noted.
The hacktivist group said these cyberattacks were in retailiation
against the arrest of Wildan Yani Ashari, who had been accused of
hacking President's Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's personal Web site. Summary: Hacktivist group defaces
Myanmar tourism site, stating data was untouched and it merely wanted to
call on the Burmese government not to expel and oppress the Rohingya
race.
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