Incidents in country:
4 incidents catalogued
A cyberattack on Britain's biggest carmaker forced JLR to shut down its global IT network and halted vehicle production in the UK, China, Slovakia, India, and Brazil for five weeks — now considered the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history.
A hacker using the alias xenZen exposed personal and medical data on 31.2 million Star Health customers via Telegram bots, alongside 5.76 million claims records. The leak escalated into a public extortion drama implicating a senior Star Health official.
Ransomware encrypted the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi — India's most prestigious public hospital — taking patient registration and clinical records offline for two weeks during peak winter patient load.
Tribune India journalists demonstrated that paid intermediaries could provide full Aadhaar records — including biometric-linked identity data on roughly 1.1 billion Indian residents — for 500 rupees per record.