new delhi government has taken several steps to protect its websites but firewalls and other measures did not prevent hackers to hack its websites over 1000 times in the past three years a number of websites have been hacked almost every year since 2010 minister of state for home affairs rpn singh on tuesday informed the lok sabha that a total of 303 308 371 and 48 government websites belonging to various ministries and departments were hacked during 2010 2011 2012 and up to march this year respectively the numbers show that the hacking incidents have been increasing every year since 2010 though singh did not share the details of the locations from where these websites were hacked it is learnt that a number of them had been hit from offshore locations including china pakistan the us russia and some central asian countries the minister in his written reply to a parliament question however said the department of information technology has taken necessary preventive actions to prevent hacking of the government websitessensitive data he shared the hacking data that was compiled by the indian computer emergency response team certin one of the key government agencies to work for cyber security singh said the preventive action includes proper audit of all new government websites and applications in respect of cyber security prior to their hosting it has been mandated that all government websites are hosted on infrastructure of national informatics centre nic education and research network ernet or any other secure infrastructure service provider in the country he said the minister informed the house that the nic which hosts government websites is continuously engaged in upgrading and improving the security posture of its hosting infrastructure