Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Hit By Cyberattack

India's second nuclear power unit stopped operating on 19th October 2019. It is suspected that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a cyberattack and the authorities were already alerted of the threat months in advance. Even as cybersecurity experts were investigating the case, the authorities were quick to dismiss any occurrence of a spyware infiltrating their systems. Although in a subsequent press release the authorities accepted the cyberattack on their systems. The power plant project built in collaboration with Russia has been a target of foreign players since its inception. Meanwhile, the cybersecurity community is concerned whether the Kudankulam hackers did steal India's Thorium secrets.[toc]

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant hit by Cyberattack
Nuclear Power Unit stops operating
The second 1,000 MW nuclear power unit at Kudankulam, owned by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) sto...

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