Master Stroke Full: Ministry of Defence website not hacked, clarifies NIC

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) on Friday clarified that the official website of the Ministry of Defence has not been hacked.

The NIC in a tweet informed that the website was down since 2:30 p.m. due to some technical issue.

Earlier in the day, the official website of Ministry of Defence appeared hacked, raising a serious question on the security system of the country.

On visiting, the website displayed an 'error' message and asked users to 'try again later' with Chinese characters appearing on the home page of the website.

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