The medusa ransomware group listed National Institute of Ocean Technology on its data leak site on 2023-03-17. Country: IN Sector: Government & Defense Domains named: niot.res.in Claim as published on the leak site: The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) was established in November 1993 as an autonomous society under the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India. NIOT is managed by a Governing Council and is headed by a director. The institute is based in Chennai. The major aim of starting NIOT was to develop reliable indigenous technologies to solve various engineering problems associated with harvesting of non-living and living resources in India's exclusive economic zone, which is about two-thirds of the land area of India.