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Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar’s personal website has been hacked.

After hacking the site on Monday night, the cyber-terrorists have left a message on the front page of the website that they wanted an independent Kashmir and that they were ready to fight for it.

The website, www.jagadishsettar.com, was launched on September 29, 2010, at a
function held in a private hotel in the City, when Shettar was the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) minister.

BVB Engineering College Principal Ashok Shettar had inaugurated the site, which contained information about the RDPR ministry’s projects and achievements of Shettar.

The hackers, who claim they are of Pakistani origin, call themselves ‘Voice of Black Hat Hackers-Sky Walkers.’

Citing the famous quote - “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw” - of Nelson Mandela, the miscreants have posted several messages in Urdu and English on the site.

“I am ready to give my blood to my nation. I am a Pakistani, I want peace and freedom,” is one of the messages posted on the website.

Hubli link

“The chief minister’s home office has filed a complaint in this regard and we have started investigating it.

Preliminary investigations have traced the hackers’ Internet Protocol address to Hubli,” a senior officer from Bangalore’s Cyber Crime Branch investigating the case told Deccan Herald.

He said only the official websites were foolproof and were given complete protection from hackers.

The hacked site may not be a secure one as it was the chief minister’s personal site.

“The Home Ministry has taken the issue seriously as the miscreants have targeted the chief minister’s site. A team headed by a DCP-level officer has been formed to investigate the case.

The team will look into whether this incident has any connection with the recent arrest of suspected terrorists in Hubli,” he said.