If you are in India and have been on internet for sometime, chances are you have heard Ankit Fadia’s name – The self proclaimed guru of hacking world. He is constantly in media and has been successful in creating his name as the foremost authority in Hacking.
However, Ankit also has lot of detractors, who feel, he is nothing more than a script kiddie, a hacker who works mostly on thumb rules and using readymade scripts.
Looks like his detractors are going to have yet another field day – Ankit Fadia’s website Ankitfadia.in has been hacked…yet again!
Ankit’s site was previously hacked in December 2009, then in January of this year, and now again for the 3rd time.
To be honest, a Hacker’s own site getting hacked for 3rd time is shameful (I thought long before using this word, but had not better way of describing it). What is even worse is that Ankit had openly challenged hackers in a video (embedded below) that they should hack his website and he will offer (who ever hacks his website) a full time job.
Ankit’s site was defaced in response to this challenge.
See what the hacker who defaced his website had to say (he says Ankit should probably change his profession to farming) and the video where Ankit gave a open challenge. At time of writing this, the site is already down, however, Google Cache reveals Ankit’s defaced site.
Verbatim Text from Ankit’s Deface Website
#[!]Owned by m0f0 aka Hacker :p|| Dikies #Team
[!] Greetz:
[!] Shadow008!!||??¢???||Ap3x ||th3.g4m3_0v3r||AbHi
[!] HACKED You Again, Fadia !.Seriously i think maybe you should change your profession to farming ?
[!] India’s "so called" Number 1 Ethical Hacker Hacked? ;)
[!] you must be wondering how i bypassed your security ..?
[!]What security ? :D
[!] Truth about Ankit http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/ <– read it .
[!] I did nothing illegal . Ankit openely challenged hackers to hack his site . Below is the video of him challenging the hackers .
Update: Looks like this is the 4th time. Ankit’s site was hacked 5-6 days back as well (I am not sure if it is the same, but this defacing looks different than previous one…). Here is the mirror of the hack, dated 10th September