The hacker claims to have extracted the information from the Covid-19 test details of the citizens registered with ICMR.
• A US-based cybersecurity agency claimed that a hacker using the name ‘pwn0001’ disclosed details about the breach
• The hacker claimed they had important and personal data of 81.5 crore Indians
• The report claimed that over 6,000 attempts have been made last year to hack the ICMR website.
details of 81.5 crore Indians are on sale. The data has been sourced from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to probe the matter, as per a report in News18.
The report noted that the leak was initially noticed by Resecurity, an American cyber security and intelligence agency. According to the cyber firm, a ‘threat actor’ with the alias ‘pwn001’ posted a thread on Breach Forums,– which describes itself as a ‘premier Databreach discussion and leaks forum’ – enabling access to records of 815 million (81.5 crore) Indians.
Statement From Official’s on Data Breach:
While there is no official response from ICMR or government, the report states that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to probe the matter once it receives a complaint from ICMR.
American cyber security and intelligence agency Resecurity was the first to notice that a ‘threat actor’ with the user name ‘pwn0001’ had posted a thread on Breach Forums on October 9 where they were brokering access to “Indian Citizen Aadhaar & Passport” details retracted from the Covid-19 test records of citizens.
The user had shared spreadsheets with fragments of Aadhaar details as proof.
“One of the leaked samples contains 1,00,000 records of PII(Personal Identifiable Information)
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Which Kind of Data Hacker Breach:
• Name
• Fathers Name
• Phone Number
• Other Number
• Passport Number
• Aadhar Number
• Age
• Gender
• Address
• District
• Pincode
• State
Same Day Opposition Parties Get Some Notification on Their Mobile:
This comes at a time when at least four opposition leaders on Tuesday claimed to have received messages from Apple warning them of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones and posted the purported screenshots on their X handles.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress’ Lok Sabha Member Shashi Tharoor and his party’s media and publicity department head Pawan Khera shared the screenshots on X.
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