Defence ministry website not hacked, says NIC

National Informatics Centre, which hosts government websites including MoD and MHA, today clarified that the defence ministry website has not been hacked as reported by media. NIC Coordinator Gulshan Rai said that the website are down as they suffered a hardware-related glitch that occurred around 2.30 pm.

Explaining the outage, he said the websites have been down since afternoon after it was noticed that there was a "storage area networking system" failure.

"The hardware is being replaced and they will be up very soon," Rai said.


NIC has also tweeted clarifying the rumours.

"mod.gov.in is NOT HACKED. There is some technical issue since 2:30PM today. Drupal theme https://www.drupal.org/project/zen framework. The site displayed the default logo," said NIC in a tweet.

NIC also said that website of home ministry has also been taken down for the maintenance work and upgrading the security system.

Earlier, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has assured that the website will be restored shortly.

"Action is initiated after the hacking of MoD website ( http://mod.nic.in ). The website shall be restored shortly. Needless to say, every possible step required to prevent any such eventuality in the future will be taken," said Sitharaman in a tweet.

Besides these, law ministry (lawmin.gov.in) and youth affairs ministry (yas.nic.in) websites are also down at the time of publishing of this article.

(With PTI inputs)