Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-03-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVNL)
Affected country: India
Industry: Utilities
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVNL), a power distribution company suffers a cyber attack on its Automatic Meter Reading System (AMR) in which billing data of about 4,000 industrial consumers are encrypted. The attackers demand a ransomware extortion payment.