Cyber attacks and breaches found in 2023

 

ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research: 815,000,000 breached records

Date of breach: 9 October 2023

Breached organisation: The ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research)

Incident details: The personal data of 815 million Indian residents, apparently exfiltrated from the ICMR’s Covid-testing database, was sold on the dark web earlier this month. According to the security company Security, which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ names, ages, genders, addresses, passport numbers and Aadhaar number (12-digit government identification numbers).

Records breached: 815,000,000

According to the following attack, the threat is improper network segmentation.

I'll continue the threat modling for this.


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