Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena announced that there was an attempt to hack his official web site on Christmas day.

Issuing a statement through his website, the Common Candidate said the attempt was successfully prevented by a special “web security team”.

Chances are extremely thin to ascertain the identity of the group who allegedly attempted to hack the official website of the Common Candidate.

The message which was posted on the Common Candidate’s official social media pages is as follows.

“We have received from a reliable source that, the team who are working with the President has given instructions to hack and destroy the content on Maithripala Sirisena’s official website, and they have assigned a special team to do the hacking on the Christmas Day.

There were lots of attempts earlier to do so and were successfully defended by our special security team.”