ICAR hit by major data breach, ‘crucial’ research and recruitment data goes missing

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) suffered a major data breach in April which led to the loss of “crucial data” including details on recruitment and research projects, The Indian Express has reported.

The report added that ICAR has formed a six-member committee this month to look into why the Data Centre (DC) and Disaster Recovery Centre (DRC) stopped working. The committee has been asked to give suggestions on how to improve data security and make sure such incidents don’t happen again. One of the members told this newspaper that the committee has not held its first meeting yet, even though it has been asked to submit its report by July 31.