Reportedly, the Email Servers of Indian Ministry of External Affairs were hacked in the latest attack on Indian Cyber Space.
The Ministry of External Affairs is basically the Indian government agency responsible for the conduct of India’s relations with foreign countries.
Emails present on their server are mostly classified correspondence between Ambassadors, Diplomats, Foreign Embassy/Consulate Staff among other International and Local Government Officials.
Hackers are selling the email data for the price tag of 6 to 22 Lakhs (7K to 27K US Dollars).
For sample, the hackers have shared the email credentials of at least 15 senior officials of the ministry of External Affairs on Dark Web.
There is no Official confirmation about this data breach from the MEA Officials.
Cyber Crime and other Central Departments of Indian Government are currently investigation this case.
This is a developing story and we will share more updates soon.