Chinese hackers have reportedly broken into websites hosting secret documents of India defence ministry and Indian embassies around the world, says a report by the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto.

The report titled ‘Shadows in the Cloud’ also says that among the systems leaked out could be ‘Shakti’, of the Indian Army and the country’s new mobile missile defence system called the ‘Iron Dome’.

Some of the findings of the report:

    * The office of the Dalai Lama and the United Nations are also not spared. The recovered documents also include 1,500 letters sent from the Dalai Lama’s office between January and November 2009. The profile of documents recovered suggests that the attackers targeted specific systems and profiles of users.

    * The report also says that data which was found also included visa applications submitted to Indian diplomatic missions in Afghanistan.

    * It says that there is evidence of links between the Shadow network and two individuals living in Chengdu, PRC to the underground hacking community in the PRC.

Read the report here.