The 17-year-old student arrested on charges of hacking into the official website of President Maithripala Sirisena, was ordered to be detained under Probation till September 2 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today.
He was ordered to be detained at Makola Children’s Home by the Magistrate.
The other 27-year-old suspect, Janith Madushanka, was remanded till September 2 by the Magistrate.
The CID filing a B Report, informed court that the suspects had entered illegally to the official website of the President president.gov.lk on August 25 and had altered the data of it committing offences that fell under Computer Offences Act.
The CID said that the President’s website was operating online with the telecom company and there were only five limited and protected entrances to enter the website.
Entering illegally to the website the hackers had demanded the President to reconsider the decision to move A/Level exam to April from August, find a solution to the University students’ issues, protect websites from another possible cyber attack or resign from the office, the CID said.
The CID said another 37 websites have been hacked by the suspects using a broad hacking network.
They said the first suspect was operating using his FB account, named as ‘Arrow.lk’ and his online hacking name was found as ARROW.
The 26 year-old suspect had associated with the teenager providing the background platform to hack into websites by creating a forum named as Yakadaya.
Meanwhile, the prosecution had recovered two IP numbers during the investigation and one number is located abroad.
The sources said that an international hacker residing in Bangladesh had also connived with the two Sri Lankan suspects in hacking the President’s website.
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