New Delhi. A few days ago, after the cyber attack on AIIMS, there was also a cyber attack in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. After this the hospital administration lost sleep. This time there is news of a cyber attack on the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research Institute (ICMR). It is being told that hackers have attempted cyber attack about six thousand times in a single day. The cyber attack was attempted on 30 November. Let us tell you that now the cases of cyber attack are continuously coming up in the country. Recently, a cyber attack was also done on the server of Delhi AIIMS. All the work was done manually for several days due to server downtime.
After the news of the cyber attack surfaced in the media, a statement issued by the ICMR said that their website was attacked through a blacklisted IP address based in Hong Kong. However, there was no security loophole in the firewall of ICMR’s server, due to which the hackers failed to access the patient information. If there were some loopholes in the firewall, hackers could be successful in bypassing the security.
Let us tell you that information has also come out from the news agency ANI regarding the attempt of cyber attack on the website of ICMR. As per ANI report, ICMR website is secure. It is hosted in NIC (National Informatics Centre) data centre, firewall is from NIC and is updated regularly. NIC was informed about the cyber attack through mail and reported that the attack was prevented. Although the data of ICMR is safe.