Alert issued about possible hacking by Pak intelligence agencies

August 07, 2015 20:41

Government today issued a alert to all sensitive ministries about a possible hacking attempt by Pakistani intelligence agencies to 'infiltrate' into the communication network for retrieving classified information.

The advisory has been sent to Defence, External Affairs, Civil Aviation, Finance, Power and Telecom Ministries by the Home Ministry asking them to ensure that all computers carrying classified information were put on "intranet" (an internal communication software) and no official accesses internal on those machines.

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