All CoCCA websites appear to be impacted by the breach

Oct 4, 2013 12:01 GMT  ·  By

Pakistani hackers of Team Madleets have breached the systems of the Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA) Registry Services. 

The attackers defaced the CoCCA websites and the ones of several Network Information Centers (NIC) managed by CoCCA Registry Services (NZ) Limited, a private company that provides hosting services and software development on behalf of CoCCA members.

The CoCCA websites hacked by the Pakistani group are cocca.cx, cocca.org.nz, coccaregistry.org, coccaregistry.net and coccaregistry.com.

The targeted NICs are the ones of Christmas Island (nic.cx and nic.ki), Solomon Islands (nic.sb), East Timor (nic.tl), Norfolk Island (nic.nf and nic.net.nf), and South Georgia (nic.gs).

I would have reached out to CoCCA Registry Services representatives for a statement, but at the time of writing, all of their sites are inaccessible. I’ve sent out an email to the hackers. Hopefully, we’ll find out why and how they hacked CoCCA systems.