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6,000 entities at risk following hack attack on Indian internet registry

Hacker prices info at 15 Bitcoins, offers to take down network of affected organisations for unspecified sum

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Romita Majumdar Mumbai
An advertisement on DarkNet announcing secret access to servers and database dump of over 6,000 Indian businesses — comprising ISPs, government, and private organisations — has been uncovered by Seqrite Cyber Intelligence Labs along with its partner, seQtree InfoServices.
 
The hacker has priced the information at 15 Bitcoins and is offering to take down the network of affected organisations for an unspecified amount.
 
Following an investigation, researchers at Seqrite and seQtree identified the affected organisation as India’s National Internet Registry: IRINN (Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers), which comes under National Internet Exchange of India.
 
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