Around 6K bid made to hack ICMR server

New Delhi, Dec 6: Even as e-hospital facility at AIIMS has witnessed a cyber attack, over 6,000 attempts were made to hack the server of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on November 30 but these were prevented, official sources said.
The sources said that ICMR website is safe and noted that the firewall is regularly updated. They said hackers IP were traced to a blacklisted IP based in Hong Kong.
“The site is hosted at NIC Data Centre, the firewall is from NIC (National Informatics Centre) and is regularly updated. NIC was informed through email regarding a cyber attack and has reported that the attack was prevented. ICMR has found the website in the order,” a source said.
They sources said hackers “tried to hack ICMR website 6000 times on November 30”. (ANI)