OpPakistan

OpPakistan is an organisation referenced by the alias OpPakistan and headquartered in Pakistan. It entered public awareness through a cyber incident recorded on 2014-04-25 that was labelled Operation Pakistan. The incident was carried out by Indian hacktivists who breached and defaced several Pakistani government websites. Among the compromised assets were the National Portal, the Cabinet Ministry website, and the Ministry of Defense site. The defaced pages displayed maintenance error messages while administrators worked to restore normal access. Attackers left warning messages on the sites, advising against further hacking of Indian platforms and referencing Kashmir tensions.

Technical analysis showed that the affected websites were hosted on a single server, which allowed the breach to propagate across all targets. The operation was situated within a broader pattern of reciprocal cyber hostilities between Indian and Pakistani hacktivist groups. Prior to this event, Pakistani hacktivists had conducted attacks on Indian targets such as the Bangalore City Police website and a political party’s online platforms. Those earlier attacks had prompted automated IP‑based blocking measures, but the blocks were evaded by proxy‑aware actors. No additional information regarding OpPakistan’s size, organisational structure, ownership, or specific service offerings is disclosed in the available sources.