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Kathmandu, April 15

A group of hackers that had managed to gain unauthorised access to webpages and data systems in Nepal launched a cyber attack and gained access to the dot np (.np) domain of Mercantile Communications Pvt Ltd.

The Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police believes the group managed to access the .np domain by exploiting the personal details of customers of Foodmandu, Vianet Communications and Prabhu Remit. Their sites were hacked recently.

Senior Superintendent of Police Nabinda Aryal, who heads the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police, said the cyber cell was actively trying to trace the hackers. “We are confident that we will be able to unmask the hackers and bring them to book soon.”

A user with twitter handle ‘Satan’ — which the police suspect is a group account of the hackers — had pointed out a security flaw in the .np domain. The hackers then claimed to have launched a cyber attack and gained access to the .np server.

According to Mercantile, which provides the .np domain, the hackers had informed the company that they had managed to access the domain server on Monday night. “The majority of data in this server is public information available via the ‘whois’ query. Our preliminary investigations suggest that all other .np domain services remain uncompromised,” it said in a press statement.

Nevertheless, the

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