The official website of Union Home Ministry was hacked on Sunday following which the Government has blocked it.

Soon after the website was hacked, the National Informatics Centre that hosts all the Government websites, immediately blocked it for maintenance and restoration exercise, official sources said.

Teams of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) have also been pressed into service to identify the hackers and the source server through which the website was hit, the sources said.

Pakistani hackers had in January hacked the official website of the elite counter-terror force National Security Guard (NSG) and defaced it with profanity-laden message against Prime Minister Narendra Modi besides other anti-India contents.

According to the latest official data, over 700 official websites of various Central and State government departments were hacked in the last four years and as many as 8,348 persons were arrested for involvement in cyber crimes during the period.

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