Malaysia Airlines website hacked and replaced with ‘Plane not found’ message

Tim Burrowes

January 26, 2015 1:21

Troubled airline Malaysia Airlines’ website has been hacked and replaced with a bad taste message about its missing flight MH370.

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The airline’s URL malaysiaairlines.com has been taken over with a message claiming: “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate”.

Recent weeks saw Twitter accounts belonging to the US Pentagon and US Central Command reportedly hacked by an organisation calling itself Cyber Caliphate which declares itself sympathetic with extremist Islamic beliefs.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.