Over 700 government websites have been hacked since 2012

March 11, 2015 18:43

Over 700 government websites that are hosted under 'gov.in' and 'nic.in' domains have been hacked by cyber criminals since 2012.

The government websites host information for public dissemination and no sensitive information is hosted on such portals, Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Lok Sabha in a written reply.

"As per the guidelines of the government, the computer systems with sensitive information are isolated from Internet," he added.

"As per information reported to and tracked by CERT-In, a total of 371, 189, 155 and 13 government websites hosted under 'gov.in' and 'nic.in' domains were hacked by various hacker groups during the year 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (January), respectively," the Minister said.

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