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Official Twitter account of Tourism Ministry hacked

Mariyam Malsa
15 May 2020, MVT 16:42
Mariyam Malsa
15 May 2020, MVT 16:42

Maldives Police Service, on Thursday, confirmed that the official Twitter account of the Ministry of Tourism was hacked and that the matter was under investigation.

Several criticisms of the government's COVID-19 response efforts were tweeted from the ministry's account after it was hacked.

Notably, the perpetrators criticized the state's supposed failure to utilize foreign aid for the benefit of Maldivian citizens and demanded that the public be informed of how these funds were being spent.

Furthermore, the police also confirmed a large scale cyberattack against frontline workers, particularly doctors, via messaging application WhatsApp.

The police have urged frontline workers against clicking suspicious links or forwarding codes and passwords, warning that these cyberattacks were often carried out from duplicated accounts posing as a contact of the intended victim.

Additionally, the police are conducting investigations into the hacking of Health Protection Agency (HPA)’s official website, a vital local source of information amid the virus outbreak.

On May 3, hackers claiming to be associated with hacktivist collective Anonymous momentarily overtook the HPA website, and left a cryptic message for the president.

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