Overview

• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research suffered a cyberattack in April that hit its main website, Delhi server and Hyderabad replication server, wiping recruitment, project data and email archives.
• ICAR restored icar.org.in in mid-May, but the secondary portal icar.gov.in and its disaster recovery centre are still nonfunctional.
• Scientists across multiple ICAR centres report ongoing portal outages and data gaps that are hindering research workflows and administrative tasks.
• At the July 7 ICAR Society AGM, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed the formation of a six-member committee led by Dr D K Yadava to investigate the breach.
• Despite a July 31 deadline, the panel has not convened, leaving key security recommendations and policy updates pending.