NEW DELHI, July 3 -- When a criminal group called World Leaks posted more than 200,000 stolen files on the dark web last month, buried inside that cache were component lists, supplier identities, and photographs of an iPhone model Apple has not yet announced. The data came from Tata Electronics, the Indian conglomerate that now assembles more than a quarter of all iPhones sold globally. On Thursday, India confirmed for the first time that it is investigating.

S. Krishnan, the secretary of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, said the breach had been reported to India's Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-In, and that authorities are actively examining the incident. Krishnan made the government's first p...