Lebanese governmental websites under hacker attack

PanARMENIAN.Net - A group calling itself Raise Your Voice hacked about 15 Lebanese government websites on April 16 to ask for an improvement in living standards, the day the parliament launched a three-day session to assess the cabinet’s performance.

“We are simply a group of people who could not sit in silence, watching all the crimes and injustice going on in Lebanon. We will not be silenced and brainwashed by your media,” the thehackernews.com quotes the group as saying.

Among the sites that were hacked are the National News Agency, the Presidency and the Energy, Water, Justice and Foreign Ministries. The hacking comes as the opposition is gearing up to grill the government for what it calls a bad performance and procrastination in the implementation of major decisions.

Only the Energy and Water Ministry websites had messages written on them that “Electricity is Cut” and “Water is Cut.” The group previously hacked several government sites in early March.