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November 2016
Two hackers allegedly from the
Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven Indian High Commission websites,
publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names,
passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media
reported on Monday. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
According to a report in E Hacking
News website, the Indian High Commissions where data breach happened are in
South Africa, Libya, Italy, Switzerland, Malawi, Mali and Romania.
The hackers with Twitter names
Kapustkiy and Kasimierz L later dumped the database on Pastebin.com (which
later removed the details). The Total Investment & Insurance
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"I am from the Netherlands.
I've found several SQL on their websites and I reported it. But they ignored me
so I dumped there db [database]," one of the hackers told E Hacking News
in an email.
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The hackers allegedly leaked details
of 161 Indians living in South Africa, 35 in Switzerland, 145 in Italy, 305 in
Libya, 74 in Malawi, 14 in Mali and 42 in Romania.
The Indian Embassy in South Africa
(http://www.hcisouthafrica.in/) was the first one to be hacked. The Total Investment
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The Indian Embassy in Bern
(Switzerland) was the second target (http://indembassybern.ch/) which had three
databases with 19 tables with total 35 entries and login details with
passwords.
"The compromised data includes
the name, last name, email id, address, college and a course where students are
enrolled," the report added.
In Italy, the hackers entered into
three databases with 149 entries, including the name, email-id, telephone
numbers and passport numbers. The Total Investment & Insurance
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There was no official explanation
from the Ministry of External Affairs on this development.
SQL (Structured Query Language)
injection is one of the most widely exploited web application vulnerability
used by hackers to steal data from online businesses' and organisations'
websites.
This web application vulnerability
is typically found in web applications which do not validate the user's
input. The
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"As a result, a malicious user
can inject SQL statements through the website and into the database to have
them executed," www.netsparker.com reported.
Earlier this year, there were
multiple reports that websites of seven Indian embassies were hacked and
defaced by a group claiming to be from Pakistan.The Total Investment
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