Govt rules out NIC data breach, says email system ‘totally safe & secure’

New Delhi: There has been no data breach into the government’s email system maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), according to an official release on Sunday.

The email system is “totally safe and secure”, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT said while dismissing a report claiming that data breaches in organisations such as Air India, BigBasket and Domino’s had exposed email accounts and passwords of NIC emails to hackers. “In view of this, it is important to clarify that…there has been no cyber breach into the email system of the Government of India maintained by the NIC. The email system is totally safe and secure,” the release stated.