Hacking attempt to the software of Islamabad safe city project

On Saturday 25th may it is revealed by the police department who was aware of the matter that an online system of Islamabad safe city authority has been tried to hack by unknown hackers as a result of the system getting offline. The department who revealed the matter said that the hacking attempt was done two days ago due to which the whole system shutdown. On Thursday hackers firstly try to gain access to the primary server and then to take over important data and records which were linked to the hackers system. The problem was immediately reported to the Complaints management server , criminal management record center , HRMS and other operational software and all the system shutdown at once.Powerful firewalls alarmed within time however the system could not be backed up before shutting down and there was no other ready system which was replaced with this affected one. This weakness made it necessary to promptly shut down the system without waiting a second.After the incident the Information Technology authority disabled all the logins of applications and programs which were acting as a pathway between important record and application software.One of the officer from security office said that it seems that the hacking was not a planned hacking by a renowned hacker but the result of leaking important login credentials to anonymouse or irresponsible person. May be it would be the result of setting password the easily guessed or approachable word. More ever the license of some system software was expired so it is the chance that the security measures were not working properly till renewal of license. To work easily within a broad range the department was also using Mobile application like record of small Police vehicle , data of police stations, video analytics,e-challan data, criminals record and operation of Islamabad traffic police. Cameras of safe city were working properly within security line. Mr. Taqi Jawad representative of police verify the hacking attempt and said that immediate measures taken by logging off all the system at once.