webfact Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 COMPUTER CRIME Culture Ministry website hacked by "Bad Piggies" The Nation BANGKOK: -- The official website of the Cultural Ministry was still off the air on Wednesday, as police continued to hunt for hackers who tampered with the website yesterday and again today. The Ministry's permanent secretary Prisana Pongtatpitakkul said the hacking violates the Computer Act and the hacker or hackers could face a jail term of not more than one year or a fine of not over Bt20,000 or both. On Tuesday, at 5pm, suspected hackers replaced the website mcultural.go.th, with a footballgambling website. The ministry had it fixed and resumed services. However, at 2am today the hackers, using the name of "The Bad Piggies Team", compromised the security of the website again, forcing the ministry to suspend the site once more. On this occasion, they replaced the homepage with photos of a controversial TV soap opera, "Nua Mek 2" ("Above the Clouds") and a statement reading "Return My Nua Mek 2. The drama was abruptly pulled off from Channel 3 last week because it contained what the station called "inappropriate contents", sparking a flurry of protest on social media as the government denied claims it was behind the decision. Prisana said the ministry had asked the Information, Communications and Technology Ministry and IT experts to prevent the recurrence of the incident and was cooperating with police in order to find the hackers. -- The Nation 2013-01-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Moruya Posted January 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2013 Bring back itchy ears too 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angsta Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 For it to happen once...well. But twice? 555 useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locationthailand Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Funny - so the public has spoken about the politicians and vented their anger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post clockman Posted January 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2013 Dont you just love it, when society fights back! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EyesWideOpen Posted January 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2013 Asking the Thai police to solve a computer crime ???? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Bad Piggies? So it could be anyone in the government then! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buchholz Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) The official website of the Cultural Ministry was still off the air on Wednesday, as police continued to hunt for hackers who tampered with the website yesterday and again today. The disgruntled Culture Minister surely wouldn't arrange to sabotage the website of the ministry he voiced his displeasure with just last week.... would he? Posted 2013-01-10 Sonthaya Kunplome was clearly not totally happy when he became Culture Minister after he completed his five-year political ban. The culture portfolio was not the Cabinet seat Sonthaya wanted Instead, he sought and is still seeking the post of Tourism and Sports Minister http://www.thaivisa....inisters-hopes/ btw, the site seems to be back to normal....... for now http://en.m-culture.go.th/index.php?&el_mcal_month=2&el_mcal_year=2013 Edited January 16, 2013 by Buchholz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker69 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Bring back itchy ears too Can't do, he is up to his ears in Malaysia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkofdavid2 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 How dare they do hacking?? That's "not Thai culture!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Soutpeel Posted January 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2013 I wonder if the hackers could, if they a reading, link the video of Songkran great boobie outrage to the Culture Ministry website ? thanks very much 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 On this occasion, they replaced the homepage with photos of a controversial TV soap opera, "Nua Mek 2" ("Above the Clouds") and a statement reading "Return My Nua Mek 2. Stickin' it to the man, one dodgy Thai soap at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurboy Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) The Bad Piggies Team 2 The Ministry of Culture 0 Good effort the piggies, a well deserved away win. Edited January 16, 2013 by arthurboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 On this occasion, they replaced the homepage with photos of a controversial TV soap opera, "Nua Mek 2" ("Above the Clouds") and a statement reading "Return My Nua Mek 2. Stickin' it to the man, one dodgy Thai soap at a time. At least it wasn't something serious like " The King and I". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Very serious this , well i suppose it is. Maybe they've been sent by Hillpiggy from Burma, here little piggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuky Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 The Culture Ministry need to counter the Bad Piggies with some Angry Birds of their own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Hard to feel sorry for anything bad happening to the " Culture Ministry". After all the hoopla they made about the bare breasted girls dancing at Songkran, and then it was pointed out their website had bare breasted girls all over it. Hypocrisy taken to the absolute final level...... So I say...........Go piggies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagwan Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Perhaps Chalerm is ranting "I'll huff and I'll puff until I blow your house down" Go Piggies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theajarn Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Too bad Anonymous doesn't seem to be as active here as they are in the Philippines : P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjjmmi Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I wonder if the hackers could, if they a reading, link the video of Songkran great boobie outrage to the Culture Ministry website ? thanks very much Good one LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTG Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Too bad Anonymous doesn't seem to be as active here as they are in the Philippines : P ....or....maybe they really are anonymous and disguising them selves as the bad piggies !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 It is outrageous that these 'bad piggies' do something like this, giving their fellow-creatures such a bad name, everyone knows that piggies are really friendly smiling people who pose with their hands trotters held out, awaiting the 'heavenly blessing of the brown-envelope', where anonymous people just give them cash/cars/airline-tickets for free ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Subject to a 20,000 Bht fine ? That would deter the most determined hacker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Asking the Thai police to solve a computer crime ???? I once went to a police station in Bangkok to report a theft. The cops there were very busy: playing a football computer game, so they are obviously qualified.. Edited January 19, 2013 by 007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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