The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) website was hacked yesterday, for the second time since March 2013. The hack was ostensibly in revenge against the Indian army’s recent “surgical strikes” operation, according to a message on the environment regulator’s website.

The hacker “D4RK 4N631”, read as “Dark Angel” in ‘leet hacker speak’, left the following message on the NGT’s home page around 7pm yesterday evening: “Website Stamped By D4RK 4N631 FUCK YOU GUYS! We are Unbeatable. You mother fuckers kill innocent people in Kashmir and call your self defenders or your country You little bitches violate the cease fire on border and call it “Surgical Strikes” Now kiss the burn of Cyber War”

An electric guitar version of the Pakistani national anthem was playing on the home page when the website was hacked and the message was displayed on it yesterday, reported the Times of India.

D4RK 4N631 has apparently defaced several other websites.

The NGT’s website was hacked in March 2013 last time by an Indonesian hacker, ostensibly as a warning against its weak security status. The message posted on the website by that hacker was: “HACKED BY RIFALDI238 Sorry admin, I not evil , i just warned.. Your security is low !! patch your site !!”

‘The Hacker News’ founding editor Mohit Kumar commented to Mint: “Cyber conflicts are often the mirror of traditional conflicts between two countries. Everytime tension simmers between India and Pakistan, hackers from both sides hack and deface a large number of websites, especially government, with an intention to damage critical digital infrastructures of the nation. Also, it is a known fact that a large number of government websites are poorly designed and rarely get security audits, which makes them prone to cyber attacks.”