14 DAY TRIAL // Khan, who claims to be a Pakistani hacker living in Italy, has breached and defaced the official website of Taith (taith.gov.uk), a joint committee of six county authorities from North Wales that handles transport and travel planning.
The attacker has defaced the Taith website’s main page with a protest message against the intention of some UK officials to ban Muslim girls and young women from wearing veils (hijab) in public places.
In addition to the Taith website, the hacker has also targeted eight other websites belonging to various UK companies, including a model agency, a car service firm, and a couple of inns. In each case, the attacker claimed to have deleted their databases.
At the time of writing, all the websites have been restored. Mirrors of the defacements are available on Khan’s zone-h.org profile.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time when the hacker targets government websites. Back in July, he managed to deface the English website of Russia’s Federal Customs Service.