New FBR Chairman Asserts ‘Data Wasn’t Hacked’
He conceded that the cyberattack on FBR’s database succeeded in disrupting the system but the hackers failed to access any data or transaction details
The newly appointed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed refuted the claims of a cyberattack on the revenue board’s data and said that it was neither stolen nor hacked.
During a press briefing, the FBR chairman said that out of 850 data machines, 400 of them got disrupted but fortunately, the data wasn’t hacked.
He conceded that the cyberattack on FBR’s database succeeded in disrupting the system but the hackers failed to access any data or transaction details.
In response to data breaching, the FBR chief cleared that the Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) chief officer had resigned before the cyberattack on the database.
Moreover, FBR’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Mansoor Sultan said, “There has been a breach of system and it seems that the attackers did not want to go beyond that.”
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Shedding light on the FBR’s tax collection figures, Mansoor said that the total collection stood at Rs 850 billion in the first 2 months of 2021, July and August, against the fixed target of Rs 690 billion.
The tax collection exceeded Rs 160 billion or achieved the envisaged target by 123%.
The revenue board’s net collection stood at Rs 434 billion in August 2021 against the desired target of Rs 349 billion, so the collection exceeded Rs 85 billion.
