The government on Sunday clarified there has been no cyber breach into the email system maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
The government’s clarification came following a media report claiming that Emails and passwords of hundreds of Union government officials have been exposed to hackers due to the recent data breaches in Air India, Domino’s and Big Basket.
“The email system is totally safe and secure,” the Ministry of Electronics & IT said in a statement.
It further said the cyber security breach on external portals may not impact the users of Government Email Service, unless the Government users have registered on these portals using their Government Email Address and have used the same password as the one used in the Government Email Account.
NIC Email system has put in place several security measures such as two factor authentication and change of password in 90 days.
Further, any change of password in NIC Email requires mobile OTP and if the mobile OTP is incorrect then change of password will not be possible. Any attempt of phishing using NIC Email can be mitigated by NIC, the Ministry added.
