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The confusion surrounding the correct rate of tax to be applied was cited as the reason for the hacking of the president’s website after the teenager who was apprehended for the breach said he had been planning on infiltrating Ravi Karunanayake’s website but decided to change tack after realising he does not know the correct rate of VAT applicable.
Ravi Karunanayake was visibly disappointed by the news that his site was not hacked, “So far only ten people have visited my website since its launch three years ago. Of them, five are my family and the other five are from the Ministry of Finance. If my website was hacked everyone would know about it just like they now know about the President’s website. I would have even paid that boy to hack the site.”
The boy who was apprehended said, “I was worried that my parents would be fined for not paying the correct amount of VAT for hacking so I avoided infiltrating the Minister’s website and went with the President’s instead. I decided to complain about the dates of the A/L which now clashed with a long weekend when I was planning on going on holiday with my friends.”
The hackers revealed that they had won a Hackathon as a result of their actions and would be using the money to pay for bail.
