MILF Website Hacked

The Web site of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), http://www.luwaran.com/, was reportedly defaced by unidentified hackers last week. It was restored last Saturday after being offline for a number of days.

Mohagher Iqbal, a senior MILF leader, confirmed Saturday that their Web site was hacked by unknown individuals last October 4. Television giant GMA 7 reported that the MILF website had several photos of pigs, animals considered unclean by Muslims. Links to news articles in the MILF website also led to defaced pages featuring pigs. "I love pigs," "i love pigs :D," "Prite bac Prite" and "digdigdig," the headlines read.

Iqbal said that he has no suspect to pinpoint at the moment, refusing to speculate that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) may be behind it. Meanwhile, the AFP insisted that they have nothing to do with the problem encountered by the MILF website.

A quick check of the http://www.luwaran.com/ domain shows a lot of updates from August to October 2008. The hosting ISP also changed a number of times. I'm still checking for a mirror of the defaced site to provide more clues as who the culprits are. Hackers normally feel they have one-upped the administrators and oftentimes cocky enough to display their tags and "gr33tz".