After this morning’s consternation over the hacking of Malaysia Airlines’ official website, the airline seems to have contained most of the damage wrought on its online presence, at least on the front end.
The MAS website is now back to displaying its intended content, with a statement released on the MAS Facebook page acknowledging that it had been subject to a DNS attack by members of the hacking group calling itself Lizard Squad:
While all this damage control was going on, the hackers, who signed off as the “Cyber Caliphate” on the redirected splash page during this morning’s hack, kept on taunting MAS through the @LizardMafia Twitter account:
@LizardMafia also put out a screencap of what looks like an e-mail inbox listing down MAS and Firefly flight bookings:
One of the bookings, titled “Dato Sri Mustapa Mohamed, urgent”, possibly refers to International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed.
LizardMafia apparently plans to release more data culled from the MAS website during their DNS attack:
