ISLAMABAD: The website of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was shutdown deliberately on Saturday to evade further cyber attacks after initial attacks hitting the site had been foiled, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported.
Asian and Russian hackers carried out attacks on the ECP website but these attacks were foiled, Khizar Aziz, Director General IT at the commission, said adding all the data of the Election Commission posted on the website remained safe.
“Had our host server was based in Pakistan, in that case there could have been immense loss,” Aziz said. He said Election Commission host server is based in Canada, which now being shifted to another more secure server.
The DG IT said that ECP’s website was shutdown under a deliberate strategy to avoid further attacks during the transition period.
The sources said nomination papers of the election candidates would be uploaded on the website within next few days.
DND
