Blocking of File-sharing Web Sites - Malaysian Government's Websites Hacked

Since yesterday morning, most of Malaysian Governments websites were hacked by an international hackers group; ANONYMOUS. This is a protest made by the hackers due to the blocking of 10 file-sharing web sites by SKMM to prevent illegal downloads. Anonymous warned Malaysian Government that they will hack governments official web sites starting from 15 June 2011 at 7:30 P.M under OPERATION MALAYSIA.

The group that responsible for the hacked web sites

Free wallpaper for hacked web sites

Pirates of Carribean?

The hacked web sites including:

SabahTourism.com – Hacked + leaked

Tour Malaysia (Not Tourism Malaysia) – Hacked

Tourism Malaysia – Unaffected

UiTM Penang – Hacked

JBiotech - Hacked

Social Welfare Department (Ezi2Care) – Hacked

CIDB – Hacked but back up 12:20am

Land Public Transport Commision – Hacked but back up 12:15am

1Malaysia – DoS / Switched off 3:45am

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission - Unaffected

ASEANConnect – DoS / Switched off

Malaysian Meteorological Service – DoS / Switched off

Ministry of Education – DoS / Switched off

Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia – DoS / Switched off

Bomba - DoS / Switched off

TMNet - Unaffected

Perbendaharaan Malaysia - DoS / Switched off

Kementerian Kerja Raya Malaysia - DoS / Switched off

Parlimen Malaysia – DoS / Switched off

Malaysian Treasury – DoS / Switched off

University Kebangsaan Malaysia – DoS / Switched off

Jobs Malaysia – DoS / Switched off

Information, Communications and Culture – DoS / Switched off

Human Resouce Ministry – DoS / Switched off 3:59am

National Sports Council – DoS / Switched off

Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) – DoS / Switched off

10 File-sharing web sites blocked by SKMM:

1. http://www.warez-bb.org

2. http://www.thepiratedbay.org

3. http://www.movie2k.to

4. http://www.megavideo.com

5. http://www.putlocker.com

6. http://www.depositfiles.com

7. http://www.duckload.com

8. http://www.fileserve.com

9. http://www.filestube.com

10. http://www.megaupload.com

Well, I agree that closing of some of the web sites will help to prevent illegal downloads, but most of illegal downloads actually comes from P2P a.k.a Peer-to-Peer (download using Ares, Torrent etc.), not direct downloads (Fileserve, Filestube and Megaupload)! What the h*** SKMM thinking when deciding which sites should be blocked? I'm an avid user of Filestube and Megaupload services, so this is really inconvenience for me. 

P/S: 10 web sites blocked. Are you affected?

Source: Pneumedic, Princess Momoy