Hacked: Haryana discom billing faces cyber attack
Chandigarh: Billing accounts of thousands of electricity consumers in Haryana have been hacked in a cyber attack, a state discom official said on Wednesday.
"There was a cyber attack on March 21 on the Automatic Meter Reading System (AMR) through which the billing of about 4,000 Industrial consumers is being done. The said system was installed, operated and managed by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) since 2011," said a spokesperson of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN).
He said that there was no loss of billing data as the backup is already available with the Nigam and the billing of these consumers is also not affected.
"There is no business loss and there is continuity in the business. Immediately after the attack, the complete system study was carried out by the concerned officers, cyber experts as well as other IT experts. The database was found encrypted and the backup of encrypted database was also taken for further retrieval," he said.
A FIR has been lodged by UHBVN officers.
"The Nigam had already taken steps much before to phase out the said system and to be replaced by latest, robust and technologically advanced system on cloud services which shall be operational by the end of May 2018. The billing of above 4,000 consumers has already started functioning normally," the spokesperson added.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
KSRTC inducts 20 Ambaari Utsav sleeper buses
Bengaluru, Dec 24: Karnataka Transport and Muzrai Minister Ramalingareddy on Tuesday inaugurated 20 Ambaari Utsav sleeper buses of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
He also distributed temporary deputation orders for Driver-cum-Conductors to 82 candidates with highest scores in the driving test conducted at the Humnabad Training Centre.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, MLA Gubbi, chairman of KSRTC S R Srinivas and vice-chairman Mohammed Rizwan Nawab were also present.
Ambaari Utsav sleeper buses will operate between Bengaluru and Kundapura, Mangaluru, Nellore, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Thrissur and Ernakulam.
According to KSRTC, 35.43 lakh passengers daily make use of its service through 8,896 vehicles.
It also stated that the Karnataka government has approved addition of 5,800 new buses to the state transport corporations, of which 4,301 buses have been added across four corporations – KSRTC, Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation and Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation -- in the past one year.
The government has also granted permission for the recruitment of 9,000 posts across four corporations and 2,144 drivers, conductors, and technical staff have been recruited till now. The recruitment process for 6,856 positions will be completed soon.
KSRTC launched 20 Ambari Utsav buses on Tuesday. In total, KSRTC now has 40 buses. The newly launched buses are available for service from today.@santwana99 @RLR_BTM @dineshgrao @KSRTC_Journeys @AshwiniMS_TNIE @aknisreekarthik @ramupatil_TNIE @XpressBengaluru pic.twitter.com/4buyAIYzBs
— Nagaraja Gadekal (@gadekal2020) December 24, 2024
