Notorious Indonesian Hacker Behind DHQ Website Hacking

We can confirm that the defacing of the Nigerian Defence Headquarters’ website done in an ISIS-style on January 23 was carried out by an Indonesian Hacker with the pseudonym Maniak K4sur.

K4sur’s handle has been responsible for the hacking and defacement of the official websites of Fairfield Police Department, NJ and Jasper County Police, IN websites in the United States 21st November, and 15th November 2013 respectively. He was also linked with the hacking of 8 NASA websites in the US.

Confirming the hack, Nigeria’s Defence Spokesperson Gen. Chris Olukolade, said via his twitter handle:

Yes. Our website has been defaced. There's an ISIS style attempt to hack into Government Platforms. Our provider, @Galaxybackbone is on it.
— Gen. Chris Olukolade (@GENOlukolade) January 23, 2015

He also later revealed that the website has been reclaimed from the hackers and situation has been put under control.

Our providers @GalaxyBackbone have resolved the issue. Claims issue was a Network Security Breach. http://t.co/MM7EVOrZbf Website is back.
— Gen. Chris Olukolade (@GENOlukolade) January 23, 2015

A twitter handle corroborated the claim that K4sur is a terrible hacker saying he had defaced 8 NASA websites in the past:

2. Besides @defenceinfong's, Mansiak K4sur defaced the official websites of Fairfield Police Dept, New Jersey&Jasper County Police, Indiana
— 7th Dimension (@7DLife_NG) January 23, 2015

3. Mansiak k4sur defaced 2 Major police & 8 NASA websites in the US & now @DefenceInfoNG http://t.co/cEiLkc60Dg pic.twitter.com/I0Ysh37I5s
— 7th Dimension (@7DLife_NG) January 23, 2015

Earlier, a controversial twitter handle [@imamsadiq123] had claimed responsibility for defacing the Defence Headquarters official website. Imam Sadiq had tweeted these minutes after the DHQ site was hacked:

We can now declare to Nigerians that we now have control .. http://t.co/tAmXfupD0k. This is to prove a point that we are every where
— Imam Sadiq (@imamsadiq123) January 23, 2015

We now have direct control of the site . http://t.co/rlMmtUCcrS the front end and the back end.
— Imam Sadiq (@imamsadiq123) January 23, 2015

We are now in defence and hosting provider of http://t.co/rlMmtUCcrS
— Imam Sadiq (@imamsadiq123) January 23, 2015

At the time of publishing this report the Nigerian Defence Headquarters website has been restored.