<p class="title">It has been more than a fortnight since the BJP's official website has been non-functional, apparently after being targeted by hackers.</p>.<p class="title">While the BJP shrugged it off as a small issue, cyber security experts believe the delay in bringing the website back online could be because of the amount of data loss the party suffered in the hacker attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP website was hacked on March 5, when the homepage of the website showed a meme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website was taken down after that and it displays a message saying that the party is carrying out maintenance work and that the website will be back soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though no hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had earlier said the website was hacked only for a few minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mukesh Choudhary, Founder-CEO of Cyberops Infosec and cyber security expert, said the BJP must be taking time to make its website available again to ensure that it should not be hacked again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since the election is coming, hackers are certainly on the prowl to target party websites, and the BJP may be treading cautiously to avoid facing yet another embarrassment, Choudhary said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A text message to BJP IT Cell head Amit Malaviya seeking comments on the non-functional website was not responded to.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress lost no chance at trolling the BJP and even offered help to restore it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources in the saffron party said they were using this break as an opportunity to overhaul the website, which has been pending for the past few months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another cyber security expert Amit Malhotra said the website should have been restored within a day or two after the cyber attack depending on the nature of the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Harm should be known to the system or web application depending on the nature of attack, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The time taken to restore the website will depend on how much data has been lost and whether the server that hosted it was located in the country or in a foreign land, Malhotra said.</p>
<p class="title">It has been more than a fortnight since the BJP's official website has been non-functional, apparently after being targeted by hackers.</p>.<p class="title">While the BJP shrugged it off as a small issue, cyber security experts believe the delay in bringing the website back online could be because of the amount of data loss the party suffered in the hacker attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP website was hacked on March 5, when the homepage of the website showed a meme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The website was taken down after that and it displays a message saying that the party is carrying out maintenance work and that the website will be back soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though no hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had earlier said the website was hacked only for a few minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mukesh Choudhary, Founder-CEO of Cyberops Infosec and cyber security expert, said the BJP must be taking time to make its website available again to ensure that it should not be hacked again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since the election is coming, hackers are certainly on the prowl to target party websites, and the BJP may be treading cautiously to avoid facing yet another embarrassment, Choudhary said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A text message to BJP IT Cell head Amit Malaviya seeking comments on the non-functional website was not responded to.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress lost no chance at trolling the BJP and even offered help to restore it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources in the saffron party said they were using this break as an opportunity to overhaul the website, which has been pending for the past few months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another cyber security expert Amit Malhotra said the website should have been restored within a day or two after the cyber attack depending on the nature of the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Harm should be known to the system or web application depending on the nature of attack, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The time taken to restore the website will depend on how much data has been lost and whether the server that hosted it was located in the country or in a foreign land, Malhotra said.</p>
