Hackers of the Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA) have breached and defaced 7 websites owned by the Indian government.

The affected websites are the ones of the Bihar Tourism from Ministry of Tourism India (bihartourism.gov.in), Mitigating Poverty in Western Rajasthan (mpowerraj.gov.in), the Directorate of Medical Education of the Government of Kerala (nurses.kerala.gov.in), the Salary Revision Commission of Government of Kerala (src.kerala.gov.in).

Other victims are the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal in New Delhi (cdrcestat.gov.in), the Works Information & Monitoring System (pwddelhi.gov.in) and the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (sameer.gov.in)

The hack comes in response to the attacks launched by Indian hackers against Pakistani websites. According to the deface message.

Here u g0 KiDs! Indian Government Servers Own3D! Hello GaY HinD People! Now Where’s SecuritY? ;) Listen U Fucked Up Indishell Kids! We Were Trying To Be in Peace! BuT We Don’t Think U Want It to Be Like That Anymore! So Here comes The Fuck From Us.

U abused All Pakistanis ( Which Includes Our Parents as Well )..I Had Told U AlreadY We have access to more than 50% of Indian GOV servers! BuT U ThoughT We MighT Be Kidding & U KepT Trying ur Lame ShiTs on .PK siTeS! When I see ur lame ShiTTy defaces on .PK SiTeS, It Drives me Real CrazY..Shame on U kids! :D

I Also Told U noT To Hack .PK Otherwise U will see Zone-h Full Of StarWhite Indian FLAG :D..Now Is The Time For Doing ThaT ShiT! In Other Words! We have Done this ShiT..

At the time of writing, three of the websites were restored, two of them were still defaced, while the last two were taken offline altogether.

It appears the site’s administrators haven’t patched the vulnerabilities, since the sameer.gov.in has been defaced for the second time.

Hacker collective Team GhostShell leaked a cache of more than one million user account records from 100 websites over the weekend.

The group, which is affiliated with hacktivists Anonymous, claimed they broke into databases maintained by banks, US government agencies and consultancy firms to leak passwords and documents. Some of the pinched data includes credit histories from banks among other files, many of which were lifted from content management systems. Some of the breached databases each contained more than 30,000 records.

An analysis of the hacks by security biz Imperva reveals that most of the breaches were pulled off using SQL injection attacks - simply tricking the servers into handing over a bit more information than they should. "Looking at the data dumps reveals the use of the tool SQLmap, one of two main SQL injection tools typically deployed by hackers," the company's researchers explained in a blog post.

Team GhostShell said the online leaks, which are part of its Project Hellfire campaign, were made in protest against banks and in revenge for the rounding up of hacktivists by cops and government agents.

The team said it worked with other hacking crews, MidasBank and OphiusLab, on the attacks - and claims to have accessed a Chinese technology vendor’s mainframe, a US stock exchange and the Department of Homeland Security. It plans to offer access to these compromised systems to hackers who have the chops to handle them.

In a statement, the group threatened to carry out further attacks, leak more sensitive data and generally unleash hell.

“All aboard the Smoke & Flames Train, Last stop, Hell," Team GhostShell wrote. "Two more projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It's only the beginning."

Team GhostShell is lead by self-proclaimed black hat hacker DeadMellox.