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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.
2012 Operation Ababil, a series of cyber attacks starting in 2012, targeting various American financial institutions and carried out by a group calling itself the Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam. 2013 Singapore cyberattacks, attack by Anonymous "in response to web censorship regulations in the country, specifically on news outlets"
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]
In India, the Pegasus Project investigations alleged that the Pegasus spyware was used on ministers, opposition leaders, political strategist and tacticians, journalists, activists, minority leaders, Supreme Court judges, religious leaders, administrators like Election Commissioners and heads of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Protect and deliver advice that aims to reduce the vulnerabilities of critical information infrastructure, against cyber terrorism, cyber warfare and other threats. Identification of all critical information infrastructure elements for approval by the appropriate Government for notifying the same.
According to cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the MOVEit vulnerability began being used on May 27, 2023. [1]On May 31 Progress Software released a patch for the vulnerability and stated the vulnerability “could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment”.
The county said in a news release Sunday that while most county offices remained open, certain transactions would be limited, and that its Information Technology Department was addressing the outage.
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.