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Chinese group claims to have hacked secret documents of the Indian government, targeted websites including EPFO ​​

Chinese hackers targeted Indian government : A hacker group from China has claimed to have hacked the documents of most of the government departments of India and the websites of many big companies including President's Office, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Reliance Industries and EPFO. Are on target. According to media reports, the Chinese government-linked hacking group iSoon recently posted thousands of documents, images and chat messages on GitHub. After this matter came to light, the Chinese police has also started investigating how the files were leaked?

How did the files get leaked? Chinese police investigation

According to reports, two employees of the hacker group said that the Chinese police is investigating how the files were leaked. An employee said that an iSoon meeting was held on February 21 regarding the leak. It said the incident will not impact the business and operations will continue as normal. After the leaked documents were revealed to be in Mandarin language, information about the hackers' modus operandi and goal also came to light. From NATO to European governments and even private organizations in Pakistan were the targets of hackers.

Apart from government departments of India, companies are also the target of hackers.

According to the report, the leaked data mentions that many departments including India's Finance Ministry, External Affairs Ministry and the President's Home Ministry are on target. An internal report by AIsun also claims that data of users of India-run pension fund managers, Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), Bharat Sanchal Nigam Limited (BSNL), Air India and Apollo Hospitals was also allegedly stolen. I went.

Friends and foes all target China

China targets everyone from friend to enemy. Apart from India, Beijing has also targeted its friend Pakistan. Other targets of Chinese hackers include Nepal, Myanmar, Mongolia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, France, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Cambodia and the Philippines. According to the leaked data, between May 2021 and January 2022, hackers stole 1.43GB of data from an anti-terrorism center located in a province of Punjab, Pakistan.