17-year-old hacks presidential website to postpone exams
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When exam time comes around, you often see comments like 'I finished tomorrow's test...' on the web, but a 17-year-old young man has appeared who hacked the official website of his country's president in an attempt to postpone his exam.
Sri Lankan teenager hacks president's website to try to get exams delayed | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/30/sri-lankan-teenager-hacks-presidents-website-to-try-and-get-exams-delayed
Sri Lankan teenager held over hacking of president's website - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37214629
Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy for allegedly hacking into the official website of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and leaving a message requesting the postponement of the GCE A-level exams. The boy was arrested on Monday under the Computer Crimes Act, and was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 300,000 Sri Lankan rupees (approximately 210,000 yen).
During the hacking, the young man deleted all data from the president's website and instead posted a message calling for the postponement of the GCE-A level exams or the president's resignation.
By Maithripala Sirisena
Police said: 'We traced the hacking trail to the young man's home in Kadagana (a town 100km east of Colombo ), Sri Lanka's largest city. The attack on the president's website has rendered it inaccessible until the weekend.'
Sri Lanka has had similar hacking incidents in the past, and the Computer Crimes Act was enacted in 2007 to combat such computer crimes. The presidential website was restored on Monday, the first day of the week, and the young man was arrested. This is apparently the first time a young man has been arrested under the Computer Crimes Act.
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