Fake FB Profile Seeking Money: Addl SP Pallav Tamuly

In the meantime, the police official has requested people to not respond to messages received in his name and to not entertain such requests.
 Top Assam Police official Pallav Tamuly
Top Assam Police official Pallav Tamuly
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A fake account on social media site Facebook in the name of Additional Superintendent of Police Pallav Tamuly in Assam, has been flagged for allegedly seeking money from people.

According to reports, the fake account is sending out Friend Requests to befriend people on the site. After befriending people those behind the account are reportedly sending messages seeking money.

In the meantime, the police official has requested people to not respond to messages received in his name and to not entertain such requests.

The cop has asked people not to fall for the fake profile
The cop has asked people not to fall for the fake profileFacebook/ Pallav Tamuly

This comes after Union Minister for Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology on February 3 informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 50 government websites have been hacked in the year 2022-23.

Union Minister informed the upper House on the question of the details of instances of hacking of Central Ministries/Departments and State Government websites since 2020, year-wise.

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In response to a parliamentary question raised by CPI MP Binoy Viswam, Minister said that as per information reported to and tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a total of 59, 42 and 50 websites of the Central Government Ministries/Departments and State Governments were hacked during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.

"CERT-In has further informed it has detected and prevented 2,83,581, 4,32,057, 3,24,620 malicious scams during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively," he informed Rajya Sabha.

Union Minister Vaishnaw further said that as per the information reported to and tracked by CERT-In, a total number of 6, 7 and 8 data breach incidents related to government organisations were observed during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.

"There have been attempts from time to time to launch cyber-attacks on Indian cyberspace from both outside and within the country. It has been observed that such attacks compromised computer systems located in different parts of the world and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers to hide the identity of actual systems from which the attacks are launched" he added.

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