In view of the several hacking incidents in the country by the so-called
hacker group 'Legion', the ministry of electronics and IT has ordered a series of measures.
This includes audit of the financial sector starting immediately with the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), review of the IT Act to make it stronger and setting up a crack team to respond to unusual incidents on a war footing.
Social networking site Twitter has also been asked to strengthen its network and all stakeholders of the financial industry including payment and wallfirm have been asked to immediately report any incident.
A digital payment section has been created in CERT-In, an agency which monitors the Internet traffic on a real time basis given the ongoing momentum in cashless payments in the country. “
Under the IT Act it is mandatory for all institutions to report cyber incidents to CERT-In, however prompt reporting of such incidents, especially by banks has not happened in the past.
Prasad said that all digital payment firms have been asked to report any unusual movement immediately to CERT.
Legion- Hacker group.
- So far hacked:
- Twitter accounts of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's,
- official account of Indian National Congress,
- liquor baron Vijay Mallya,
- journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar
- news channel NDTV
- NPCI, IRDBT and a popular e-wallet firm's servers are compromised, and have been attacked at the root level.
- IDRBT is a technology service provider for banks in India.
