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Screenshot shows the website of Malaysia Airlines on the morning of January 26, 2015 after it was hacked.
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Hong Kong (CNN)The official Malaysia Airlines website has been hacked by a group claiming to support Islamist terror group, ISIS.
On logging into www.malaysiaairlines.com
on Monday morning, users were presented with an image of a Malaysia
Airlines Airbus and messages that read "404 -- Plane Not Found" and
"Hacked by Lizard Squad -- Official Cyber Caliphate."
The browser tab also read "ISIS will prevail."
The
Malaysia Airlines homepage later changed to a black background
featuring a mocked-up image of a lizard in a top hat complete with
monocle. Users were directed to a Twitter page called "@lizardmafia,"
which featured a series of largely asinine posts.
The
airline, which is currently restructuring itself in the wake of the
loss of two of its airliners last year, could not be contacted by
telephone.
Hack denied
In
a post on its Facebook account, the airline denied its internal
servers, which contain passenger information, had been compromised. It
said its Domain Name System (DNS) had instead been hijacked, with users
redirected to the hackers' website.
The
airline added the issue has now been resolved with its service provider
and the system is expected to be fully recovered within 22 hours. The
matter has also been reported to Malaysian authorities, it said.
But
the hackers, identifying themselves as the Lizard Squad, took to
Twitter claiming they had penetrated Malaysia Airlines' email account
and posted a screenshot.
Meanwhile,
tweets from the airline's official account directed users to a separate
URL for its online booking service. This link worked as normal.
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