On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter account got hacked. Although the Prime Minister’s Office quickly issued a statement regarding the security breach, the hackers put out two tweets from the prime minister’s account.
The government has set up a team to investigate the breach, but the incident has put the spotlight on cybersecurity concerns in India. As per Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) data, while India reported 53,177 incidents in 2017, the number of cybersecurity-related incidents had increased four times in 2018. There was a ...