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The Research team at Cyble found the database of Big Basket for sale in a cyber crime market, being sold for over USD 40,000. The leak contains a database portion; with the table name ‘member_member’. The size of the SQL file is about 15 GB, containing close to 20 million user data

It added the data put on sale including names, email IDs, password hashes, contact numbers (mobile and phone), addresses, date of birth, location, and IP addresses of login among many others.

Cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky reportedly placed India at the sixth position in the list of countries most vulnerable to such cyber attacks. The development is crucial considering the fact that Indian pharma companies have been playing an active role in delivering affordable medicines to the mass during the pandemic

The state intelligence sleuths formed a special task force with personnel from NIA and IB. The special team touched base with community elders and parents of these youth as a first step. The police organised individual and collective counselling sessions for the youth. The sessions were handled by specially-trained personnel from NIA and IB

The people taking the path of terrorist concepts are traced with the help of Cyberdome and Cyber Cell and are provided counselling. Apart from individual counselling, awareness sessions were managed with the help of mosques and religious centres too