IDs on @nic.in, @gov.in domains compromisedEmails and passwords of hundreds of Union government officials have been exposed to hackers due to the recent data breaches of Air India, Domino’s and Big Basket, the government has warned officials. “The page mentioned @nic.in email IDs to make the official believe it is a government page. have resulted in exposure of e-mail ID and passwords of many users, which includes lots of government email IDs as well. The alert said that it was observed that compromised e-mail IDs of NIC mail are being used to target Government of India officials. In May, it was revealed that data of 18 crore customers of the pizza vendor, Domino’s India, was compromised and sold on the dark net.

Source: The Hindu June 12, 2021 14:34 UTC