The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), along with Bennet Coleman and Co Ltd (the parent company of Times of India) and Madhya Pradesh Police were allegedly victims of Chinese state-sponsored cyber attacks, said a report by US-based cybersecurity company Recorded Future. The hacker group temporarily named as TAG-28 by the cybersecurity firm allegedly targeted UIDAI due to its Aadhar database, which the firm defined as: "bulk personally identifiable information datasets (which) are valuable to state-sponsored threat actors". The company correlated TAG-28's targeting of Bennet Coleman with the group's long history of perpetrating intrusions against international media outlets. This report comes months after Recorded Future, in another report, said that a Chinese-state-sponsored hacker group People's Liberation Army's Unit 69010 had targeted Indian defence research organisations and others. Earlier, it was revealed that another Chinese hacker group Red Echo had hacked…
