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Exclusive: Hacker of AnkitFadia.in speaks with Tech2

After the recent hack and defacement of Ankit Fadias website, the hacker Himanshu Sharma who goes by the screen names m0f0 and

September 18, 2012 / 17:55 IST
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After hacking and defacing Ankit Fadia’s website recently, hacker Himanshu Sharma, who goes by the screen names m0f0 and α¢, spoke exclusively with Tech2 about the incident. He has provided proof of the hack, but has requested us to not disclose it as it contains sensitive information.Himanshu Sharma is the same hacker who hacked Ankit Fadia’s website this year in January in response to a challenge issued by Fadia to all Indian hackers to compromise is website. When asked about how difficult it was to hack into AnkitFadia.in, he said, “It was not quite difficult for me to hack Ankit.” He also mentions, “He calls himself an ethical hacker but he does not even use any security for his website.” When asked about how he hacked the website, Sharma explained, “His hosting account was suspended at the time I hacked him because [another hacker] hacked it earlier and the hosting suspended the account. So I did a DNS Hijack after compromising his server to deface his domain.” Click here for full story

first published: Sep 18, 2012 05:45 pm

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