The official website of Jamia Millia Islamia University was hacked late midnight on Monday. Jamia Millia Islamia University website (http://jmi.ac.in) displayed a birthday greeting that read, "Happy Birthday Pooja. Your love." Jamia Millia University website has been restored now.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the same.
Jamia Millia university officials are yet to comment on the hacking episode.
Jamia Millia Islamia is a public central university in Delhi. It was established during British rule in 1920.
Earlier this year, websites of home, defence, law and labour ministries went down in a suspected cyber attack, raising a serious question on the security system of the country.
However, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) had maintained that it was a "technical configuration issue. "
On that note, in 2016, a total of 199 government websites were hacked in India, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had informed Parliament.
In fact, more than 700 websites under the Indian government have been hacked from 2013 to 2016.
Last year in January, the website of the National Security Guard (NSG), the Indian Special Forces unit combating terror activities, was also hacked posing un-precedented threat to national security.
The website was, however, blocked immediately by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.IN).