TCS Website (tcs.com) Hacked and Put for Sale!

February 7, 2010 Internet

The official website of Tata Consultancy Services, TCS.com, India’s largest software provider, has been hacked today. The homepage says:

This domaine name is for sale. Please contact us for further informations.
[email protected]

Ce nom de domaine est a vendre
Merci de nous contacter pour obtenir de plus amples informations.
[email protected]

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The screenshot of the website, accessed from India, at 2:30PM today, is shown above. It is rumored that, the hackers have made changes to the DNS settings of the website. They have put up a whos.among.us widget displaying current traffic on the homepage!

TCS is maintaining many of the government websites and this case points out the immaturity of TCS. Let us hope that, this will be an eye opener for major Indian software firms.

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