Archive · 25 Jul 2025
ICAR Data Breach: Recruitment, Research Data Lost
Imagine a big school for farming called ICAR, where they keep important papers.
Someone broke into their computer system, like a digital burglary!
This caused some of their important stuff to disappear.
It's like losing the records of students' applications and many research projects.
ICAR has made a special group to find out what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.
The team is also working on fixing the computer problem.
ICAR, a leading Indian agricultural research organization, experienced a data breach.
The breach, which occurred in April, affected ICAR's website and servers in Delhi and Hyderabad.
Data loss includes recruitment information, research project details, and email communications.
A six-member committee was formed to investigate the non-functionality of data systems and recommend security measures.
The committee, formed after the breach, has yet to meet.
- Who
- The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was affected.
- What
- Data breach at ICAR led to the loss of crucial data.
- When
- The breach occurred in April, with a committee formed this month.
- Where
- Affected ICAR's website, Delhi server, and Hyderabad replication server.
- Why
- The cause of the breach is not specified.
Internal Investigation
Public Awareness
Immediate Actions
Internal Investigation
Focus on finding solutions to prevent future incidents.
Public Awareness
Address current website/server functionality
- Organization
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
- Type of breach
- Data Loss
- Date of breach
- April
- Affected data
- Recruitment, research projects, emails
- Committee formation
- This month
- Committee Head
- Dr. D K Yadava