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An Indonesian hacker on Tuesday attacked and destroyed more than 100 Kenya government websites. Websites were hacked, including those belonging from various Kenyan government agencies, departments and local governments.

Hacker called Direxer, go to the site and ruin, he displays his name to show that he had access.

Leading Websites include departments of Finance, Education, Public Health, Youth, Culture and National Roads, as well as sensitive departments such as Administration Police, Immigration, Prisons and various city, state and urban councils.

A Kenyan expert aware of the incident comes from an Indonesian hacker known as Direxer responsible for the hacking.

On Tuesday night, E-Government officials had shut down some websites when they are trying to investigate how hackers can access websites.

E-Government is also trying to keep the birthday attack. Hackers put "sign" their webistes, damaging the front page view websites.

"When it opened, the hacker websites have names in it, with a message, and the song playing in the back, showing kemengannya" said Secretary of E-Government Directorate, Getao to the Nation.

"We strive every effort through our resources to restore the websites and protect it from future attacks," he added.

Connection error return

Getao added that it was able to put any restoration sites hacked, said the hacking is being waged low-level attacks that do not require the involvement of Cyber ​​Incident Response Team (CIRT) based at the Communications Commission of Kenya.

But in fact the work done colonial state was not successful, they still can not log in to their sites hacked and re-read the error message.

"The gateway could not receive a timely response from the website you are trying to access"

"This might indicate that the network is congested, or that the website is experiencing Technical Difficulties"

While other websites "website could not be found" error.

Based on E-Government, some other wesbites be back to normal.

E-Government indicates that hackers are part of online Indonesian security forum known as Forum Code Security. In this regard, there has been no response from Indonesia.

Here are some websites that successfully attacked Kenya, published in The Nation, which until this morning (20/1) are still error:

On site hacker said, "and I will make an attack on another server if the government still ignores security Security Code I. On behalf of Indonesia, Security is a necessity."