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The breach was detected in October after intelligence officers came across the data — including Aadhaar and passport records — on the dark web.
Personal identifiable information of about 815 million Indians has been leaked on the dark web, including names, phone numbers, addresses, Aadhaar, and passport information, according to a report by US-based cybersecurity firm Security.
India has witnessed an uptick in cyber activities, spurred in part by the Israel-Hamas conflict. These attacks, carried out mostly through DDoS operations and website defacement, have targeted a wide range of entities, from national infrastructure to individual political figures’ digital assets