Telangana High Court Website Hacked as PDFs Redirect Users to Gaming Site

Overview

• Staff discovered on November 11 that multiple PDF case documents were disabled and redirected to a site called BDG SLOT.
• High Court IT Registrar T. Venkateswara Rao alerted the Director-General of Police and sought registration of a case.
• Hyderabad Cybercrime Police registered a case on Friday under IT Act Sections 66 read with 43, 66(C), 66(D), Section 337 of BNS, and Section 3(1)(i) of the Telangana Gaming Act.
• NIC, which hosts tshc.gov.in from BRKR Bhavan, has opened an inquiry into the tampering, with its report still awaited.
• The court says the incident amounts to hacking that harms its reputation and disrupts public access to cause lists and case information, and no perpetrators have been identified publicly.