BANGKOK: Hackers infiltrated the website of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s office yesterday, posting offensive comments in the latest attack on her character.
The words “I’m a slutty moron” appeared briefly alongside a picture of a smiling Yingluck, followed by “I know that I am the worst Prime Minister ever in Thailand history!!!”.
It was signed by “Unlimited Hack Team”. The government quickly shut down the website and warned the perpetrators they faced tough punishment if caught.
“It might have been done by some teenagers... or maybe it was for political purposes,” said the prime minister’s secretary-general, Suranand Vejjajiva. “Hacking a website is easy... but don’t forget that checking who did it is not hard either,” he told reporters.
“If we find them, they will be charged under the computer crime act,” he said.
Everest climber falls to death
KATHMANDU: A Nepalese mountaineer slipped into a crevasse and plunged to his death on Mount Everest yesterday, the third fatality of the summit season, an expedition organiser said.
Lobsang Sherpa, 22, a member of a team guiding a commercial expedition up the 8,848-metre mountain, was returning to the team’s campsite when he fell, said Mingma Sherpa of climbing agency Seven Summits Treks. The body had been recovered and was being airlifted to Kathmandu.
Two other climbers have died on the peak this season.
Human-trafficking pair sent to jail
BANten: An Indonesian court jailed an Australian and a Pakistani for six years each after the men were caught organising an asylum-seeker boat to Australia, their lawyer said yesterday.
Ali Qaseem, a 57-year-old from Sydney described by prosecutors as part of an “international people-smuggling network”, and Pakistani Sadaat Ali were also fined 500 million rupiah ($50,000) each.
Qaseem, who sought asylum in Australia after arriving from Pakistan in 1999, and Ali were arrested in September as they tried to arrange for a boat to take 45 asylum seekers to Australia.
Agencies
