NEW DELHI: An official website of
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been
breached by Chinese hackers, Indian reports said.
Reports said thousands of top secret files related to Cabinet Committee on Security have been stolen and posted on a server in China’s Guangdong province.
Apparently this the biggest security breach in the Indian defense establishment, until now.
The breach was reportedly discovered in the first week of this month, when officials from India’s technical intelligence wing, National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), along with private Indian cyber security experts cracked open a file called “army cyber policy”.
The file was found attacked to hacked email accounts of senior DRDO officials that quickly spread through the system in a matter of seconds. NTRO found that the sensitive files stolen from the infected systems, were being uploaded on a server in Guangdong, China.
The stolen data contains information about surface-to-air missile and radar programmes. Some recovered files related to price negotiations with MBDA, a French missile manufacturing company.
