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Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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This smells a bit off: why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached? The "Indian Government" (central, state, other?) is a sprawling octopus that employs on the order of 50 million people, and there's a world of difference between breaching the public site of the Department of Fertilizers (https://fert.nic.in/) vs getting into the internal systems of the Ministry of External Affairs. The only clue appears to be those 14,000 police records.

Update: the leader of the "Sakura Samurai" appears to be 15 years old, which explains a lot.

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Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ?

In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this.

Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns.

Expect no more changes.

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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This smells a bit off: why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached? The "Indian Government" (central, state, other?) is a sprawling octopus that employs on the order of 50 million people, and there's a world of difference between breaching the public site of the Department of Fertilizers ( https://fert.nic.in/ ) vs getting into the internal systems of the Ministry of External Affairs. The only clu…

> why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached?

Because this is an ad.

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ? In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this. Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns. Expect no more changes.

Indian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore -

https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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This smells a bit off: why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached? The "Indian Government" (central, state, other?) is a sprawling octopus that employs on the order of 50 million people, and there's a world of difference between breaching the public site of the Department of Fertilizers ( https://fert.nic.in/ ) vs getting into the internal systems of the Ministry of External Affairs. The only clu…

"Indian government" means central government, not state. Just like "US government" always refers to the federal government.

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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post #5

Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ? In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this. Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns. Expect no more changes.

Indian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore - https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...

What does RS 65 Croer mean?

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore - https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...

What does RS 65 Croer mean?

Crore = 10 million, so 650 million rupees, or around $9M USD.
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