Singaporean Jailed for Hacking Prime Minister's Website

By AFP on December 08, 2014
 
SINGAPORE - A court on Monday jailed a 28-year-old Singaporean for two months for defacing the prime minister's office website during a rash of cyber attacks in the city-state last year.
Mohammad Azhar bin Tahir, who is unemployed, had pleaded guilty to "unauthorised modification" of a section of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's official website on November 7, 2013, causing it to display mocking messages and pictures from international hacker group Anonymous.
The hacking was carried out a day before the website of the Istana, the official residence of President Tony Tan, was defaced in a similar manner.
A court spokeswoman told AFP that Mohammad Azhar was sentenced on Monday to two months in jail for defacing the prime minister's office website, and a further four months for other unrelated charges under Singapore's Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act.
Court documents said Azhar had injected a computer code into the server of Lee's website,www.pmo.gov.sg, causing a section of it to be compromised.
 
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