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In a statement, MAS said the website was not
hacked, but that users were redirected to a hacker website. It
said the official site would be back up within 22 hours.
"Malaysia Airlines assures customers and clients that its
website was not hacked and this temporary glitch does not affect
their bookings and that user data remains secured," it said.
Some media reports said the hacked website had earlier carried
the words "ISIS will prevail" but the slogan could no longer be
seen. ISIS is the acronym of the militant Islamic State group
that has proclaimed a caliphate after seizing territory in Iraq
and Syria.
Malaysia Airlines lost two flights last year. Flight MH370
disappeared last March with 239 passengers and crew on board and
Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17,
killing all 298 passengers and crew.
The Malaysian government took the airline private late last
year.
(Reporting By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah in KUALA LUMPUR; Additional
reporting by Paul Carsten in BEIJING; Editing by Miral Fahmy and
Paul Tait)
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