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Websites of seven Indian missions ‘hacked’, data dumped online
The websites of seven Indian missions in Europe and Africa came under cyber attack on Monday and confidential data was dumped online. The official websites of the Indian missions in South Africa, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Italy, Switzerland and Romania was hacked, claimed two hackers on Twitter, who go by the name Kapustkiy and Kasimierz. Kapustkiy and Kasimierz claim to be Security pen-testers who have said that the reason behind the hack was to force administrators to consider the cyber security of their websites seriously, The Hacker News reported. The leaked data showed that the targeted websites are so insecure that even user and admin passwords are also stored in plaintext without any hashing mechanism.






























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