Cyber security experts and security agencies are actively monitoring cyberspace to detect any cyber attacks after a handle on X claimed to have gained access to sensitive data from the Indian Military Engineering Service and Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis, officials said. The development comes amid tense situations in India and Pakistan in the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22 in which at least 25 tourists and a local person were brutally killed.
“It has come to attention via the Twitter account ‘Pakistan Cyber Force’ that the group has allegedly gained access to sensitive data from the Indian Military Engineering Service and Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis. This claim suggests that the attackers may have compromised personal information related to defence persons, including the login credentials,” the officials said.