*Once upon a time a scheme of this ilk would have required Watergate burglars with analog bugging devices. Now it can be done on a whim, and quite likely by an engineering student.
via @nigroeneveld, who is an astonishing fountain of this stuff.
"NEW DELHI: This is one aam admi outreach Rahul Gandhi will not appreciate.
"In April, when the Congress general secretary was in the thick of poll campaigns, hackers broke into two servers created by him for family constituencies in UP. Passwords were illegally accessed and the internet address tweaked to redirect users to an engineering college website. The web servers, amethinet and raebareli, are maintained from Rahul Gandhi's bungalow by his team of technical experts. (((Read – a couple of guys. He doesn't have "teams of technical experts" in his "bungalow." Nobody does.)))
"On April 8, some of them noticed suspicious activity in the computer systems. The site was getting redirected and the email accounts had been broken into. They immediately lodged an FIR, stating, "officials found that amethi.net website is not accessible". A case was registered under 66 Information Technology Act. The Special Cell of Delhi Police , which is handling investigations, is now on the lookout for the hacker. ((("The Special Cell of Delhi Police" must be an interesting crew.)))
"Technically, the hacker has cracked the whole domain system of the server and used an email to get the passwords," a senior officer who is part of the investigation said. The hacking reportedly took place between April 4 and 19. Sources said the servers and websites at 12 Tughlak Lane had information on the constituencies of Rahul Gandhi and his mother, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. The young MP's house is also a hub of policymaking for the Youth Congress and the systems store huge databases in terms of constituencies, individuals and trends, they said...."
