MUMBAI: Chinese hackers have crashed the website of Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia‘s biggest film festival. The move has escalated tensions over a visit to Australia by exiled leader Rebiya Kadeer of the Uighur minority.
Online bookings for the Festival had to be shut down after the site crashed with phony purchases that resulted in the entire programme being sold out.
A Chinese citizen living in the United States had alerted organisers of the viral campaign that originated from a Chinese website titled ‘A Call to Action to All Chinese People‘.
The site explained how to set up a fake profile for buying tickets and aimed to crash the festival‘s site in protest against its screening of Ten Conditions of Love and its hosting of the documentary‘s subject.
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