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