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Oil India Receives Rs. 57 Crore Ransom Need From Hacker

Oil India Receives Rs. 57 Crore Ransom Demand From Hacker

PSU major Oil India, which suffered a cyberattack disrupting its operations in Assam, has actually received a ransom demand of $75,00,000 (roughly Rs. 57 crore) from the criminal, authorities said on Wednesday.A case was registered under different areas of the Indian Penal Code and the Infotech Act, 2000, after the business lodged a complaint with the police.The public sector undertaking Oil India and the

government exchequer have incurred a substantial monetary loss due to the cyberattack– ransomware, as business through the IT system has actually been seriously affected, Oil India Manager (Security)Sachin Kumar stated in the cops complaint.The cyberattack occurred on April 10 at Oil India’s one of the workstations of the

Geological and Tank department, however it was intimated by the IT department on Tuesday, he stated.”After their preliminary examination, it concerned their notification that Oil India’s network, server and clients’PCs are facing network interruption.”Even more, it also pertained to their notification that cyberattacker has actually demanded$75,00,000 as a ransom through a note from the contaminated PC,”Kumar stated. The server, network and other related services of the company are impacted, he added.A senior Assam Cops authorities in Dibrugarh district stated they signed up a case under the various sections of the IPC and IT Act, and began an investigation into the matter.Oil India Spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika told PTI from its field headquarters in Duliajan that the business is dealing with fixing the system in phases and”it will take time”.

“Our online systems are down and we are working offline. The drilling and production work has actually been untouched. The information are being conserved offline now and it will be submitted later when the IT system will run again

,”he said.A senior official of the Oil India’s pipeline headquarters at Narengi in Guwahati told PTI that they have shut down their whole network, although their system has actually not suffered any attack currently.”Our work is badly impacted as we are completely reliant

on the web network. Our IT engineers are continuously monitoring the situation and they are fully prepared to thwart any cyberattack,”the official said on condition of anonymity.Published at Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:44:12 +0000

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