Sebi files the FIR in a cybersecurity incident as the email accounts of 11 officials were hacked. Details here

The regulator said in a statement that recently a cyber security incident was noticed on the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) email system which was undergoing a system upgrade and hence FIR (First Information Report) according to the relevant legal provisions have been registered.

Varunkumar Kishan Gopal, Deputy Director of IT Department at SEBI Head Office in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), received a complaint from ISD Director Abhijit Chandrakant on May 23 and Chandrakant suspected that his official email id had was accessed by strangers and emails were sent from it and when Gopal checked the SEBI disaster recovery site, he found that the email accounts of 11 officials had been hacked, according to Hindustan time report.

Further, Sebi informed that various mitigating actions were immediately taken in response to this cybersecurity incident, including notifying CERT-IN as per standard operating procedure and strengthening system security requirements, among others. . CERT-In is notably the nodal national agency for responding to computer security incidents as they occur.

“It was a small incident. CERT-IN is fully in the loop. No sensitive data was lost. The root cause was diagnosed and corrected. Prevention for the future was fully implemented,” according to An official spokesperson for the market regulator said it was monitoring its detection and prevention systems and had taken additional steps after the incident to strengthen security procedures for implementation and migration activities.

Meanwhile, in another development, Sebi ordered the seizure of an individual’s bank accounts as well as stock and mutual fund holdings to recover approximately ₹18 crore in Shree Ramkrishna Electro Controls Ltd. Sebi said in a seizure notice on Thursday that recovery proceedings were ordered against Chandrakant Bhargav Gole to recover ₹5.74 crores collected by the company with 15% interest per annum i.e. ₹12.53 crore through the issuance of Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (RCPS) to investors. Gole was the managing director of Shree Ramkrishna Electro Controls Ltd (SRECL) during the relevant period.

(With contributions from PTI, Hindustan Times)

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