Popular blog Malaysia Today has been under 'attack' since yesterday prompting the question if this could be related to the exposure of a 'classified' cabinet paper related to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal.

malaysia today offline inaccessible 180909Over the past three days, the blog had been uploading several parts of the cabinet paper.

The published document revealed how the RM12.5 billion project had spiraled into disaster.

Malaysia Today was completely inaccessible in the morning but came back online later.

However, a check by Malaysiakini at 3.45pm revealed that the site was once again inaccessible.

Contacted later, Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) acting chairperson Mohamed Sharil Mohamed Tarmizi denied that they have blocked the site.

"We don't have any power to block any website," he added.

An internal source revealed that Malaysia Today had been "under attack" since yesterday "both in term of a DDOS attack (distributed denial of service) and attempts to hack into the site."

The site had not been blocked, added the source who declined to be named.

Respect right to information

Commenting on the matter, Lim Kit Siang wondered if the technical problems were related to the PKFZ issue.

He also said the time had come for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to honour his pledge of public accountability, transparency, integrity and good governance.

parliament pandikar amin anwar ibrahim lim kit siang dap pkr pc 121108 04He said this must include respecting the right of Malaysians to information about the entire process as to how Malaysia could be landed with a RM12.5 billion scandal through three prime ministers, three transport ministers and four Port Klang Authority chairpersons.

"To do this, it is essential that the prime minister should declassify all relevant PKFZ government documents, including cabinet papers, to public scrutiny as there can be no security justification to continue to protect these information as 'official secrets'," he added.

According to Lim, this would be the best Hari Raya present Najib could give the country.

"Are there ministers whether from Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan or the other BN component parties who are prepared to come forward publicly to support the call for the declassification?" he asked.

Najib: This is unacceptable

Meanwhile, Najib said the police would be investigating the matter as the cabinet paper comes under the Official Secrets Act.

NONEHe added that the investigation was not to deny the people's right to information but such exposure on the Internet was something that could not be accepted.

"In the PKFZ case, whatever that we must tell the people, we will do so later but it cannot be accepted that the cabinet paper is posted online.

"Any cabinet paper is still under the OSA and police will investigate anyone who exposes cabinet papers.

"Let's wait for the investigation and what action can be taken based on the OSA," he said.