13 school websites were hacked into and defaced on Wednesday afternoon sometime after 3pm.
The MOE released a statement about the incident indicating that all the affected websites were hosted on the same server. The pages continued to show the defaced webpage until just after 5pm.
They have reported the matter to the police and the affected websites are being worked on to get them back online.
The hacker responsible identified himself as Jack Rider and left the pages with a black and green background with the words "Hacked by Jack Rider" on it.
The hack comes just a week after "The Messiah" was arrested and charged in court under the Computer Misuse Act for hacking governmental websites.
Today (20 nov), Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs K Shanmuugam also said publicly that Hacking attacks are “nothing short of terrorism”, at a REACH dialogue today. He was responding to a student’s question on why the Government appeared to be taking the recent hacking threats and attacks so seriously since there appeared to be little tangible damage.
It seems like the Singapore government is trying to make all sort of excuses to push for tougher internet laws on the online community.
Meanwhile, anonymous hackers are apparentlygaining a huge amount of support from Singaporeans which causes many ministers including our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to panic and ask for support from Singaporeans instead of cheering for the hackers in an event of a cyber attack.
Here is a list of the 13 websites which were affected:
1. Bukit Timah Primary School
2. Canberra Primary School
3. Compassvale Primary School
4. Greendale Primary School
5. South View Primary School
6. West View Primary School
7. Woodlands Ring Primary School
8. Henderson Secondary School
9. Kent Ridge Secondary School
10. Maris Stella High School
11. Raffles Girls' School
12. St Gabriel's Secondary School
13. St Andrew's Junior College
