Housing.com website hacked, sacked CEO says not guilty
NEW DELHI: Around 4:30 PM on Monday, Housing.com, the $250 million real-estate postal most recently in the news for the public sacking of Rahul Yadav, it’s IITdropout CEO, showed a cryptic message.
“Yes! We will solve real estate, but 10X better with The Chief Architect.” it read. This was followed by a series of incomprehensible equations, possibly a code of sorts for Housing.com employees, and ended with: “We’ve achieved a lot in the last 3 years, but the game has just begun. Yet, We are hungry for all!l :)” (sic).
At the top of the message were two hashtags: #rahulyadav and #housingdown.
The site was down for just under 10 minutes before it was restored — and then it went down again, this time for the better part of an hour.
On Twitter, the speculation was that the hack was internal, possibly done by Yadav supporters miffed about his sacking last week. Yadav attempted to distance himself from the controversy by writing #NotInvolved on his Facebook page. But he didn’t help matters by writing #LoveYouTechTeam in the same post.
Housing.com has been gripped by controversy ever since Yadav, 26, wrote a resignation letter on April 30 to board members and investors questioning their “intellectual capability”. Yadav later apologised and withdrew his resignation.
Last week, Housing.com formally let Yadav go citing his behaviour.
Housing.com did not reply to requests for comment at the time of going to press.