600,000 Stolen Indian Records Sold on Bot Markets

One of the largest VPN service providers in the world, NordVPN, says that so far. The data of about 5 million people worldwide have been stolen and sold on the bot market. Six hundred thousand are from India, making it the country most affected.

Hackers use bot markets to sell the information they stole from their victims’ devices that had bot malware on them.

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The study by Lithuania’s Nord Security and NordVPN said that the stolen data include. User logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, screenshots, and other information. The average price for a person’s digital identity was set at $5.95 (around ₱330).

Concerns over India’s level of cyber security have been ongoing for some time. On November 23, multiple servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a federal government hospital that treats ministers, politicians, and members of the general public, were infecte

, according to a senior police official who spoke with Reuters. AIIMS caters to the general public as well as ministers and politicians.

According to reports from the Times of India on November 30, one week after the ransomware attack on AIIMS, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) faced approximately 6,000 attempts to break into its systems within 24 hours.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued new regulations earlier this year that made it mandatory for technology companies to report data breaches within six hours of becoming aware of such incidents and to keep IT and communications logs for six months. These regulations came into effect only recently this year.

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