A number of senior government officials, including those from the ministries of defence and external affairs, were targeted in a phishing campaign earlier this month, the Hindustan Times has reported. The attackers used compromised government domain email accounts to launch their hacking attempts, the report said. The National Informatics Centre issued an alert soon after the attack, although it isn’t clear at this time whether any of the targeted computers were compromised. The targets were senior officials from at least three internal government mailing lists, the report added.