More than 700 websites of various central and state government departments were hacked in the past four years, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Of the total of 707, 199 of them were hacked last year, 164 in 2015, 155 in 2014 and 189 in 2013, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju told Lok Sabha.
Rijiju said a total of 8,348 persons were arrested for their involvement in cyber crimes. As per a the Times of India report, the government said that only 315 of them were convicted during 2014-15.
He said the website of counter-terrorism force National Security Guard (NSG) was partially defaced and abusive message was posted by unknown hackers on January 1 this year.
“The NSG website which is hosted on National Informatics Centre (NIC) server has been blocked immediately,” the minister added.
Rijiju said that the government has initiated several measures such as audit of the systems and networks, increasing awareness in area of cuber security, sharing threat-related information with stakeholders and capacity development to address the issue of cyber hacking.