AIIMS Delhi Server Attack: AIIMS server was hacked by China

There has been a big disclosure on Wednesday regarding the cyber attack on the server of the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIMS) located in the capital Delhi. An official of the Union Ministry of Family Welfare and Health said that according to the FIR, the AIIMS server was attacked from China. Hackers had hacked five out of 100 servers. However, now the data has been recovered from these five servers.

On November 23 there was a cyber attack on AIIMS server. This cyber attack was done from two mail IDs of Hong Kong. This information was received by the Intelligence Fusion Strategic Operations (IFSO) of the Special Cell of Delhi Police probing the case. The IP address of the email used in the attack is coming to Hong Kong due to this the role of China is doubtful.

According to police sources, the IP address of one of the main mail IDs under investigation is 146.196.54.222 and the address is Global Network, Franchit Limited Road D/3F Block-II, 62 Yuan Road Hong Kong-00852. The Delhi Police informed the matter to the Ministry of External Affairs.

AIIMS Delhi server attack | FIR details that the attack originated from China. Of 100 servers (40 physical & 60 virtual), five physical servers were successfully infiltrated by the hackers. Data in the five servers have been successfully retrieved now: Senior officials from MoHFW

— ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2022