New Delhi, Feb 19 : Months after a massive cyber attack at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, the government is yet to come up with a satisfactory answer as to what happened to the patient data that was encrypted and may have been exfiltrated by the hackers.

Sensitive data of 40 million patients, including political leaders and other VIPs, were potentially compromised in the hacking.

As per sources, the AIIMS server was hacked by the Chinese. The government has maintained that the services were restored and the patient data have been repopulated into the system, but the most important question is what happened to the compromised data? Did they make their way to the dark web?

Could non-state people have accessed it?

The attack was analysed by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and was found to have been caused by improper network segmentation.

According to Union Minister for State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the attack was carried out by unknown threat actors.