Bahraini authorities web sites focused by hacker assault on election day – Muricas News

Parliamentary and native elections are being held in Bahrain as we speak, and just some hours earlier than the voting started, the web sites of presidency establishments have been the goal of a hacker assault.

The Ministry of Inside didn't establish which websites have been focused, however the web site of the state information company and Bahrain’s parliament have been blocked.

The web site for the elections couldn't be accessed from overseas, though the web site of the information company was restored. “The websites are geared toward disrupting the elections and desperately putting damaging messages that won't have an effect on the willpower of the residents who will go to the polling stations,” the Ministry of the Inside introduced.

Posts by the hitherto unknown “Storm” group appeared on social networks, claiming that they carried out the assaults “due to the persecution of the Bahraini authorities and the implementation of the favored will to boycott the faux elections.”