Suspected Chinese hack targets Indian media, government: report

A US-based cybersecurity company exposed that an Indian media conglomerate, as well as a police department and the agency responsible for the country’s national identification database, have been hacked, likely by a state-sponsored Chinese group. The allegation has the possibility of increasing friction between the two regional giants, whose relations have already been seriously strained by a border dispute that has led to clashes this year and last year. In its report, the Insikt Group suggested the cyberattack could be related to those border tensions.As the group was investigating the Bennett Coleman hack, it said it also identified a compromise in June and July of the Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, the government agency that oversees the national identification database.