FutureBazaar website is hacked, down for 48 hours

NEW DELHI: Future Group's plans to boost on-line sales has come across a cyber hurdle with its flagship e-commerce portal FutureBazaar being hacked and has been rendered the site dysfunctional for the last two days. 


Terming the hacking of the site as 'denial of service attack', FutureBazaarchief executive officer Rajiv Prakash said, "The website has been down for the last couple of days and has been blocked to consumers." 



He said the company is currently working to tackle the problem internally and also taking a legal action against the hackers . 


"We have filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Branch in Mumbai. Internally we are working to get the site up and running and it should be fine soon," Prakash said. 


However, to minimise the business loss, the company has kept its phone commerce active and consumers can make purchases through the same. 


Though, Prakash did not comment on the kind of losses the company may be suffering everyday because of the problem, the portal is one of the emerging business verticals of the group. 


SOURCE: ECONOMICS TIMES