Over 15,700 Indian websites reported hacked this year up to November. parliament was informed Wednesday.

“Electronics and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in written statement reply to Lok Sabha”, 33,147, 30,067 and 15,779 Indian websites were hacked during the years 2016, 2017, and 2018(up to November) respectively.

    The minister of State of Electronics and IT SS Ahluwalia said a total of 9,622, 11,592, and 12,317 cyber crime cases were registered during the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 respectively, as per the data maintained by National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB).

    The total fraud cases registered which effecting ATM, cards, Point of sale(POS) systems and Unified Payment Interface(UPI) were reported during 2016, 2017, and 2018(up to November) respectively.

    “Further, the RBI has registered a total of 1,191, 1,372, 2,059 and 921 cases of frauds involving ATM/Debit Cards, credits cards and Internet Banking frauds reported(amount involved Rs 1 lakh and above) during the year 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19(up to September 30, 2018) respectively,” Ahluwalia said. PTI SR MKJ.

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