The Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has filed a first information report (FIR) about a cybersecurity incident on its email system.
According to the report, filed last week, the email accounts of 11 officials were hacked by unknown persons. SEBI officials disclosed that the incident took place while the email system was undergoing a system upgrade, reporting that no sensitive information was stolen.
The incident was first brought to the notice of Varunkumar Kishan Gopal, assistant manager of IT at SEBI (BKC), when he received a complaint from Integrated Surveillance Department (ISD) manager Abhijit Chandrakant, on 23rd May.
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