New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- In the last five years, cyber security incidents like hacking, breaching computer systems among others witnessed an almost eight-fold increase in India. In 2019, as per information tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), nearly 3.94 lakh cyber security incidents were reported as against 49,455 incidents in 2015, 50,362 in 2016, 53,117 in 2017, 2,08,456 in 2018 and 3,94,499 incidents in 2019.
According to the CERT-In, 54 websites of Central Ministries, departments and State Governments were hacked in 2019, against 110 sites in 2018. These cyber attacks originated from Pakistan, Algeria, Brazil, China, France, Netherlands, North Korea, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, USA ...