Earlier, Maharashtra police had reported an upsurge in cyber attacks from China, with over 40,000 attempts by Hackers based in Chengdu region.
Srinagar: The Power Development Department (PDD) of Kashmir was the target of a cyber attack on Wednesday morning, where customer records and billing data were targetted.
A local source within the department told Free Press Kashmir, “at around 4 in the morning, the database servers of PDD’s IT department were attacked.”
As per the official, the concerned department handles the billing details and maintains customer records.
Officials have assured that the billing cycle for this month was already generated and would not be affected by this attack.
Superintendent of Police of the cyber crime wing of Jammu and Kashmir police, Tahir Ashraf, while speaking to Free Press Kashmir nether confirmed nor denied the attack.
However, executive Engineer IT PDD, Neel Kamal Singh confirmed the attack while speaking to a Jammu based media outlet.
“Four out of fifty servers have been attacked. The FIR has been registered in this regard and a joint team of Police and Cyber cell yesterday rushed to assess the damage caused,” Singh confirmed.
“This type of attack is called Ransomware, and the hacker encrypts all the data in the servers and locks it due to which the user fails to access it,” he added.
The intensity of the attack is not yet known.
Earlier, Maharashtra police had reported an upsurge in cyber attacks from China, with over 40,000 attempts by Hackers based in Chengdu region.
Cautioning the internet users about the recent attempts by hackers, police officials based in Maharashtra said that users should be careful about sudden phishing attempts and should avail cyber security audits of their IT systems.
Details awaited…
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