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• Allegedly confidential files to nuclear power plants have been leaked on the dark web.
• The concerned company reported that there was a cyber attack on the data.
• Cyber ​​security experts expressed concern in terms of national security.

A ransomware group called ‘World Leaks’ has posted a large cache of confidential files to India’s largest nuclear power plant, Kudankulam, on the dark web. These include alleged blueprints of parts of the nuclear project and details of suppliers. Hackers use this data to ‘Reliance Claimed to have stolen from ‘Group’.

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The Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu is the largest of the seven in India. It is a very important part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to expand the country’s nuclear power capacity. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group, one of the contractors for the project, admitted in a statement that its data was partially hacked. This data was hosted on the servers of Yota, a third party Indian data center service provider. Reliance said it has informed the government about the incident, but did not disclose the exact type of data leaked.

According to Nicholas Roth, senior director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which works on nuclear security and advises governments, these data leaks could pose a serious threat to the safety of nuclear plants. Also, this incident shows the extent to which hacking incidents have increased in India and many companies are still not fully equipped to deal with such threats.

Possibility of ransom demand

Reliance Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Reliance Group, was awarded the contract in 2018 to build the infrastructure for Unit 3 and Unit 4 of this nuclear plant. Both these units are currently under construction and are expected to be operational by 2027, generating a total of 2,000 MW of electricity. ‘World Leaks’ is a notorious ransomware group that has previously targeted Nike and the Tata Group. Usually when companies refuse to pay the ransom, the group publishes their data on its dark web site, which can only be accessed through special browsers such as Tor.

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Epidemic of data leaks in the country

According to security researchers, if these files fall into the wrong hands, they can be used to map a project’s support system, identify suppliers, and find security flaws. According to a report by cyber security company Surfshark, India ranks third in the world in terms of data leaks, where 2.89 crore accounts were hacked last year. Only America and France are ahead of India in this list.

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