The Mauritania Hacker Team is responsible for the attack

Dec 23, 2013 11:46 GMT  ·  By

Hackers of the Mauritania Hacker Team have breached and defaced the official website of Mauritania’s Ministry of Justice (justice.gov.mr), Techworm reports.

The targeted server, which runs Windows Server 2008, appears to be located in Mauritania.

On the defaced website, the attackers haven’t mentioned their reasons for targeting the Ministry of Justice. They simply wrote, “Hacked By Mauritania HaCker Team.”

On the other hand, considering that they’re local hackers, this is either part of an anti-government protest, or they want to show the government that its websites are not secured properly.

At the time of writing, the website of Mauritania’s Ministry of Justice is still defaced, despite the fact that several hours have passed since the attack. A mirror of the defaced website is available on zone-h.org.