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The government is aware of reports of a data breach that claims having datasets from the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) and the Employees Provident Fund Organisation, and has asked the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) to look into it, senior officials told ET...
They (Cert-In) will look into it and submit a detailed report, including on whether the data set is new, an official said.. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisit..
On Tuesday, a user on social media intermediary X claimed that a set of documents belonging to Chinese cyber agencies were leaked on the global software and code repository GitHub, and that these documents contained data from the EPFO, the Indian PMO and other public as well as private organisations...
Of these attacks, state-sponsored cyberattacks against India increased by 278% between 2021 and September 2023, with services companies, including information technology and business process outsourcing firms, seeing the highest share of attacks, as per a report released in November last year...
According to the 2023 India Threat Landscape Report by Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Cyfirma, India is the most targeted country globally, facing 13.7% of all cyberattacks..
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