Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday alleged a “deep conspiracy” behind the hacking of the official X (formerly Twitter) account of its Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman and several other senior leaders, claiming the incident was aimed at tarnishing the party’s image and creating public confusion.
“The cyberattack was deliberately carried out to publish objectionable and contradictory content, particu-larly on issues related to women’s rights and the party’s ideology,” Jamaat assistant secretary general Maulana Abdul Halim told a press conference yesterday morning.
According to Jamaat’s cyber security team, the breach took place on January 31 in the afternoon. An unwanted and offensive post was published from the Ameer’s official X account at around 4:37 pm, fol-lowed by a similar post in Bengali from the account of the Dhaka City South secretary later.
The party’s social media team detected the unauthorized activity at around 4:55 pm and regained control of the compromised accounts by 5:09 pm after changing passwords.
An official clarification was issued at 5:22 pm, stating that the controversial posts were the result of hacking.
Jamaat leaders said preliminary technical findings indicate that the accounts were hacked through phish-ing emails containing malware.
They claimed that hackers sent emails to official party addresses, including info@jamaat-e-islami.org, disguising them as urgent documents related to election case studies from an official e-mail address from the Bangabhaban.
Regarding legal and official steps, Jamaat-e-Islami said it has lodged a General Diary (GD) with the po-lice over the incident.
The party also plans to inform the Election Commission, alleging that such cyber attacks undermine a level playing field in the electoral process.
