NEw Delhi: The Goa government was in for an online shock yesterday when its Information and Publicity Department’s website was hacked allegedly by a Turkish group that posted anti-America slogans on it.

The website, which is designed to display information on the details of the Goa administration and government schemes was flooded with graphic images of executions and arms seizure.

State Information Secretary in-charge J P Singh said that the matter is a serious one and will be looked into.

According to government watchdog CERTIN, close to 3,000 Indian websites have been hacked this year, 140 in October alone.

In September, Google mail accounts of key government officials were tampered with and earlier, passwords and login names of the National Defence Academy and key Indian embassies were splashed by a hacker on this web site.

Goa police say the alleged hacker Huseyingazi has cross-linked the web site to www.turkmilliyetcileri.net which flashes anti-America slogans, police said. One of the comments reads, "United States of America which is feeding on and strengthening behind close doors the universal terrorists is the greatest terrorist country."

But the state police dismissed it as a common practice. "This is a very common thing and not unique to Goa," Deputy Inspector General of Police Ujjwal Mishra said.

Source : PTI