MILLIONS OF INDIAN TAXPAYER’S PERSONAL DATA LEAKED. INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT HACKED

A couple of weeks ago, a hacker identified as “Bassterlord” claimed to have administrator access to the network of a tax collection office in India.

In his post, on a Russian-speaking hacking forum, it can be seen that the hacker mentions that this network is made up of four devices that store 800 GB of government information. Bassterlord adds that he is accepting requests through communication channels such as Telegram, his personal email and the hacking forum itself.

The writing of this post is not good enough, so cybersecurity experts are unclear if the hacker is selling the leaked data or just the compromised system access credentials. However, as proof of the hack, Bassterlord posted five screenshots; after being analyzed, the experts concluded that the incident is real.

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