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Data breach incidences in India were the second highest globally in 2018, according to a report by digital security firm Gemalto. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With over 690 million internet subscribers [ 3 ] and growing, India has increasingly seen a rise in data breaches both in the private and public sector.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
January 2003 Mumbai bombing [15] Mumbai: 1 28 32 13 March 2003 March 2003 Mumbai bombing [16] 10 33 23 March 2003 2003 Nadimarg massacre: Nadimarg, Jammu and Kashmir 25 1 34 14 August 2003 Kamalnagar massacre [17] Tripura: 14 N/A 35 25 August 2003 August 2003 Mumbai bombings: Mumbai: 52 36 2 January 2004 Jammu railway station attack [18] Jammu ...
Since then, India and Pakistan were engaged in a long-term dispute over Kashmir which moved into cyberspace. Historical accounts indicated that each country's hackers have been repeatedly involved in attacking each other's computing database system. The number of attacks has grown yearly: 45 in 1999, 133 in 2000, 275 by the end of August 2001. [9]
The biggest Indian bank, the State Bank of India, announced the blocking and replacement of almost 600,000 debit cards. [ 4 ] An audit performed by SISA Information Security reports that the breach was due to malware injected into the payment gateway network of Hitachi Payment Systems.
On 26 November 2008, in the evening, local time, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks began in the city of Mumbai, India's largest city. Targets included the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway terminus and two large hotels. The attack involved both explosives and gunfire and resulted in the deaths of at least 175 people, with many more injured.
Over the past few years there have been a series of attacks, including explosions in Mumbai Suburban trains in July 2006, and the attacks of 26 November 2008, when two of the prime hotels, a landmark train station, and a Jewish Chabad house, in South Mumbai, were attacked and sieged.
Air India's data processor, SITA which is a Swiss technology company known for offering passenger processing and reservation system services reported the data breach to Air India in around February 2021. [3] The data breach involved all information which was registered in the SITA data processor between 26 August 2011 and 20 February 2021.