Delhi High court sought response on plea of cyber security, breaches and data leakes on online platforms, for instance, Domino's, big basket, mobikwik etc.
Next hearing is on 23 September.
Justice Rekha Palli granted time to standing counsel for center. Ajay Digpaul to obtain further instructions on plea filed by Yarlagadda Kiran Chandra, general secretary, free software movement of India.
Justice Palli said, "The grievance raised in the present petition is that the second respondent (CERT-In) is not taking any action qua the incidents of cyber security breaches and data leaks committed by various entities despite the same being brought to its notice by the petitioners vide its detailed representations,”
The petition prayed that the issuance of a direction to the CERTIN ( Computer EmergencyResponseTeam, India ) to start investigating against the data breaches, cyber crimes that occured on well known online platforms like Big baskets, Domino's and many more.
Under section 70B of IT Act, 2000, computer emergency response team, India held responsible for collecting, analyzing information on cyber crimes and to take necessary measures for handling the same.
The directions to the services providers, data centers, iintermediaries and other persons as well.
“It was reported that there was a major cyber security incident at Big Basket. According to a report, cyber intelligence firm Cyble has reported around 20 million BigBasket users’ data has been breached and are available on Dark Web. The petitioner submitted a representation dated November 11, 2020 to Ajay Lakra, Public Grievance Officer, CERT-In on the Big Basket data breach. In this letter, the petitioner had requested the CERT-In to intimate an investigation into the incident and update citizens on what has transpired at Big Basket under Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2020,” said the petition.