Updated On: 31 August, 2016 08:23 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>The attack was carried out as a call to draw attention to the varsity students’ problems</p>

Colombo: A 17-year-old student was arrested for allegedly hacking President Maithripala Sirisena’s official website last week, calling for postponement of A-level examinations. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Sri Lanka arrested the boy, a resident of Kandy, the Colombo Page reported. President’s media division gathered the information on the cyber-attack and reported it to the CID.
Maithripala Sirisena