Futurebazaar Website Hacked !

Future Group's plans to boost on-line sales has come upward across a cyber hurdle alongside its flagship e-commerce portal FutureBazaar beingness hacked in addition to has been rendered the site dysfunctional for the lastly ii days.

Terming the hacking of the site every 2d 'denial of service attack', FutureBazaar principal executive officeholder Rajiv Prakash said, "The website has been downward for the lastly duo of days in addition to has been blocked to consumers."

He said the companionship is currently working to tackle the work internally in addition to every 2d good taking a legal activeness against the hackers .

"We convey filed a electrical load alongside the Cyber Crime Branch inward Mumbai. Internally nosotros are working to instruct the site upward in addition to running in addition to it should live fine soon," Prakash said.

However, to minimise the work organization loss, the companionship has kept its outcry upward commerce active in addition to consumers tin brand purchases through the same.

Though, Prakash did non comment on the sort of losses the companionship may live suffering everyday because of the problem, the portal is i of the emerging work organization verticals of the group.

The Future Group has gear upward a target of at to the lowest degree x per cent of the group's full retail revenues of around Rs 10,000 crore to come upward from digital platforms inward the adjacent 3 years.

As a part of the plan, the grouping is strengthening its online businesses led past times FutureBazaar in addition to online portals for its other retail formats.

Through the portal the companionship had started the 'battle for best price' offering ahead of the festive flavour this year, selling i detail item for iv days at gap of every fortnight.

Its laptop offering had met alongside a expert reply from consumers around Diwali, selling well-nigh 4,000 units generating revenues of unopen to Rs x crore.

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