India's opposition parties are asking the government to urgently launch a probe into the breach and create a working data security plan for government agencies and departments.
A US security firm first alerted the Indian authorities in mid-October after a threat actor going by the name of “pwn0001” claimed to have the names, addresses, and phone numbers of hundreds of millions of Indians for sale. Indian Council of Medical Research Data Breach: Around 815 million Indian citizens may have had their Covid test and other health data exposed to a huge data breach.
