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Second suspect arrested in Sri Lanka for hacking president's website

Xinhua, August 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Sri Lankan police on Tuesday arrested a second individual from capital Colombo for allegedly hacking into the president's official website last week.

The arrest came hours after a 17 year old school boy was taken into custody by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over the alleged incident.

"The 26 year old man was arrested from Moratuwa and has been taken in for questioning," police said.

Police on Monday said they were also on the look out for a Bangladeshi national for hacking into the president's official site.

President Maithripala Sirisena's website and a few other government websites were hacked for two consecutive days on Aug. 25 and 26 by a group calling itself the "Sri Lankan Youth".

The hackers had posted a statement in the local language Sinhala on the web page and the site was inaccessible for a few hours. Endit