Websites of 7 Indian embassies hacked, database leaked

Websites of at least seven Indian embassies were reportedly hacked and some crucial data leaked, reported ehackingnews.com.

Sites of Indian embassies in South Africa, Libya, Italy, Switzerland, Malawi, Mali and Romania were hacked. However, the sites now seem to be working.

The leaked database containing admin and login details, name, passport number, email-id and their phone numbers were published on the pastebin.com, which has blocked by the Government of India.

The hackers have leaked details about registered Indian nationals, including details about 161 Indians in South Africa, 35 in Switzerland, 145 in Italy, 305 in Libya, 74 in Malawi, 14 in Mali and 42 in Romania.

 A twitter handle @Kapustkiy, which identifies itself as Security Pentester and Cyber Detective, in a series of tweets, said, "Breached the several Indian Embassy of India. Not all there database were leaked, fix your security and credits to @Kasimierz_  for help."

Breached the several Indian Embassy of India. Not all there database were leaked, fix your security and credits to @Kasimierz_ for help

— Kapustkiy (@Kapustkiy) November 6, 2016

Indian Embassy in South Africa, Libya, Italy, Switzerland, Malawi, Mali and Romania #breached w/ @Kapustkiy

— Kasimierz Bond (@Kasimierz_) November 6, 2016

"But lets being seriously, why in the world does an ''embassy'' has such alot vulnerabilities....After this database breach, they will improve there security better," he said in another tweets.

Indian Embassy in South Africa (http://www.hcisouthafrica.in/) was the first one to be hacked, while the Indian Embassy in Bern was the second target (http://indembassybern.ch/). 

"I am from Netherlands. I've found several SQL on their website and I reported it.But they ignored me so I dumped there db" - the hacker told ehackingnews in an email.

Reacting to the development, MEA Spokersperson Vikas Swarup was quoted by PTI as saying, "We are aware of the problem and are trying to fix it".