India witnessed 13.91 Lakh cyber security incidents in 2022, Minister of State for Electronics and Information and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar informed the Parliament.
The numbers still do not give an entire picture of cyberattacks on the country as these statistics only include information reported to and tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). The number of reported cyberattacks, however, fell in 2022, down from 14.02 Lakhs in 2022.
Around 14.02 Lakh cybersecurity incidents were reported in 2021 while 11.58 Lakh such instances were reported to CERT-In in 2020. Delhi AIIMS cyberattack was the handiwork work of unknown threat actors and was caused due to improper network segmentation. Five servers of AIIMS Delhi were impacted in the November cyberattack and 1.3 TBs of data was encrypted.
