A series of cyber espionage attacks, many of them on countries bordering India, has been linked to the attack group Donot Team, a group that Amnesty International has linked to Delhi-based cybersecurity company Innefu Labs.
A fresh alert from the US Department of Homeland Security may have IT security teams jumpy over the possibility that their organisations could be targeted by Russian state actors.
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, some of the data belonged to "highly vulnerable" individuals, including missing persons and their families.