In a first of the kind of a case in the country, the hackers have stolen the billing data of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), one of the two power discoms of Haryana and have demanded Rs One crore in form of bitcoins from the state government to retrieve the data.
Sources said that UHBVN which is monitoring electricity billings of nine districts of the state (Panchkula, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Sonepat, Kaithal and Rohtak) came under cyber attack at 12.17 AM after midnight on March 21 and thus the billing data of thousands of consumers had been hacked as the IT wing of the nigam was target.
The loss of data means that the UHVBN would not have any record of power bills of the consumers besides records of the arrears.
It is learnt that recently there had been complaints from the consumers that the discom had been sending them inflated bills.
Cyber attack hits Haryana’s power discom’s billing data
Sources said that UHBVN which is monitoring electricity billings of nine districts of the state (Panchkula, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Sonepat, Kaithal and Rohtak) came under cyber attack at 12.17 AM after midnight on March 21 and thus the billing data of thousands of consumers had been hacked as the IT wing of the nigam was target.
The loss of data means that the UHVBN would not have any record of power bills of the consumers besides records of the arrears.
It is learnt that recently there had been complaints from the consumers that the discom had been sending them inflated bills.
Cyber attack hits Haryana’s power discom’s billing data
