Big dollar data breaches in SL during past eight months
The past eight months has seen at least eight data breaches and malware attacks in Sri Lanka, worth billions of dollars, a top official said.
Since March this year and as recent as earlier this month these breaches and attacks have happened affecting the Sri Lankan government and the public sector.
“On March 20, 1.9 terabytes of data breach happened, in a leading entity in the country. Since then, many state websites and entities have faced these incidents,” Don Ramesh Indika, Product head Cyber and Physical Security ICT Business Unit, Dialog Axiata PLC said. Presenting at the National Cybersecurity Conference in Colombo on Wednesday, he said that in April, 19.7 million lines were breached in a major Sri Lankan entity. Immediately in the following month, on May 26, a state department faced 617 Gigabytes of data breach. Four days later, there was a global breach in the Meta interfaces such as Facebook, Google, Apple, disrupting 16 billion passwords.
Back in Sri Lanka on June 1, another breach on 1.5 billion bitcoins worth Rs.31.5 million in a state entity happened. Just three weeks later, a state website was hacked. In the following month, on July 15, two separate state websites were attacked and earlier this month, another state website was attacked, Mr. Indika added.
“A resilient national cyber defence ecosystem is no longer optional; it is a strategic necessity. Strengthening policy and governance, trusted collaboration, real-time threat intelligence sharing, technology resilience, and continuous capacity building are the core pillars that will determine Sri Lanka’s ability to defend and recover from evolving cyber threats. By unifying these pillars under a national collaboration framework, Sri Lanka can build a coordinated and future-ready cyber defence posture that protects our people, our digital economy, and our national security,” he told the Sunday Times Business on the sidelines of the conference.
Noting the five pillars of a national cyber defence ecosystem, he said that policy and government stand first. Collaboration and partnerships, threat intelligence and information sharing, technology and infrastructure, resilience and capacity building, along with cyber awareness were also highlighted as important steps. Setting up a unified legal and regulatory framework to guide national cyber resilience was highlighted along with strengthening trust-based alliances across state, industry and global networks.
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