Indian hackers targeted politicians, private individuals worldwide: Report

An investigation by a UK-based media outlet has exposed online hackers operating from India who illegally targeted the email accounts of hundreds of high-profile government and private individuals around the world, including in Pakistan.

The report by the Sunday Times claimed that those on the list of individuals targeted included Pakistan’s politicians, diplomats and generals. The hackers seized control of computers owned by them and “eavesdropped on their private conversations apparently at the behest of the Indian secret services”, it added.

Also on the list of targeted individuals were: one of the Hinduja brothers Ashok Hinduja; Mark Fullbrook, Liz Truss’s chief of staff when prime minister; former UK chancellor Philip Hammond;