Monday, 23 October 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN

The official Facebook page of Uttarakhand police was allegedly hacked by cyber criminals reportedly for a few hours on Sunday. People on social media came to know about this when the display picture of the police’s Facebook page, which was the Uttarakhand police logo, was changed into an obscene picture of a woman. After people started pouring comments on the police’s Facebook page and the news went viral, the officials changed the picture back to the police logo indicating it was hacked by unknown cyber criminals.

However, this incident has led people to question the cyber security of the Uttarakhand police. Many people on social media platforms opined that cyber crime is consistently increasing in Uttarakhand and if cyber fraudsters can hack the official Facebook page of the State police, then one can only imagine how safe a common man’s digital information is from such criminals. Many are also considering this as a challenge by cyber criminals to the police as the latter have claimed to have arrested several cyber criminals involved in nationwide cyber crimes in recent times. Senior police officials have said that the cyber crime police station of Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) in Dehradun will investigate the matter and will take action against the guilty parties accordingly.