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Meta-owned Facebook suspended several accounts, which were being operated by APT36, a Pakistan-backed hacker group. On August 8, in the second quarter of 2022, the company clarified that the suspended accounts were targeting Indians through bogus accounts, harassing them on religion and gender grounds. The data was confirmed by Facebook, which released its Quarterly Adversarial Report earlier this week, featuring India prominently in it.

The twitter account of Indian cricket player Krunal Pandya has been hacked on January 27, with the hacker putting up the account on sale in exchange of Bitcoins. Moreover, several tweets have also been made from the account, after it was hacked. Pertinently, Krunal wasn't picked for the homes series against West Indies, after BCCI announced the squad a day back.

According to a private cybersecurity firm in the US, India's National Identification Database (NID) has been hacked by the Chinese state-sponsored groups on September 22. Reportedly, the hackers used 'Winnti Malware' which is solely shared across multiple Chinese activity groups. However, China has denied any kind of state-sponsored hacking and claimed that the country is a significant victim of cyberattacks.

In response to claims of Co-WIN mobile App's data being leaked as well as hacked, the Union Health and Family Welfare has disapproved the report. "We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people are safe with Co-WIN," said Chairman of EGVAC Dr R.S. Sharma. He also affirmed such rumours as baseless.

Former Andhra Pradesh CM, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu on August 17 wrote to PM Modi and demanded probe into the alleged phone tapping by the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in the state . He claimed that the state government was tapping phones of the opposition leaders, advocates, journalists and social activists. He further stated that the act of phone-tapping is violating the right to privacy guaranteed in the Constitution.