Macabre but hilarious… IIT Kanpur website hacked!

Macabre but hilarious… IIT Kanpur website hacked! (Saturday, April 26th, 2008)

Published by Startups News in India, Webyantra at 3:59 am. Skip down to comments or read the others.

This is serious but also funny. IIT Kanpur's website has been hacked, possibly by Pakistani hackers! For an institute whose computer science department gets the best of the IIT brainers, this must be embarassing. Apparently, this is not the first time the website has been hacked; as this blogpost & this screenshot indicate, its homepage was earlier modified into the McDonalds Indian Institute of Technology! And the hackers seem to be 'benevolent' as in evinced by this statement - "we are hackers, not criminals...protect your website....