KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — Google Malaysia’s domain registrar MyNIC confirmed today that there were “unauthorised modifications” to the site’s domain name server (DNS) after a page appeared on the website proclaiming it had been “hacked”.

MyNIC chief executive officer (CEO) Hasnul Fadhly Hasan assured site users, however, that their data was not affected by the incident.

“Our initial investigations found that the redirections are done through unauthorised modifications at DNS level,” Hasnul said in a statement.

“We have introduced a second layer of identity verification called Two Factor Authentication (2FA). This will ensure only the right authorised person is receiving the access code and able to change the domain name records,” he added.

Hasnul said, however, that some users may still be redirected or “see affected pages” for the next 24 hours due to “the way DNS works.”

Visitors to Google Malaysia’s website yesterday were redirected to a black page proclaiming that it has been “hacked!” claiming to be the work of a “Bangladeshi hacker” calling himself “Tiger-M@te”.

Google Malaysia’s corporate and communications chief Zeffri Yusof said yesterday that similar instances of DNS redirections have occurred before back in 2011 and 2013.