The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has said that no breach has occurred in its security systems or in those of other central government departments. Media has raised questions about an alleged attack by Chinese hackers to have targeted computers in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

Mr. Harish Khare adviser, PMO said, "There has been no breach on our security system, we are absolutely safe."

However another PMO officials said that some hackers have tried to breach the system but the government was ready with adequate security systems.

A TV channel report showed that hackers from China had targeted computers in the PMO around Dec 15 last year while investigators were still finding out the extent of the damage.

The report alleged that the systems of National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar, PM's Special Envoy Shyam Saran and Deputy National Security Advisor Shekhar Dutt were main targets of the hackers. Additionally, 26 others were also under threat.

The report said, "The hacking spyware itself was embedded in a PDF document. And the Trojan Horse was programmed to carry out an array of functions, including downloading files, accessing emails and passwords and also accessing the desktop from a remote location."

Another report was on alleged attacks originating from Russia. The mafia from that country is believed to be behind the attempted hacking. A Russian server has been traced from the suspicious emails in the inboxes of various senior government officials who use .nic domain.

It cannot be ruled out that an entity could be hind the attacks and hacking attempts could be well formulated however the government officials maintain that the information accessed by them was incorrect and the attacks were from some criminal gangs.

A senior official also claimed that sensitive information was not on the net systems that had been targeted.

While there is an intranet that separates systems of PMO officials from computers on the net, the external computers who received the suspicious emails were all scanned and checked.

The National Technical Research Organization was swung into action after the suspected attack took place in order to solve the problem and further protect the security systems.