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About 19,000 files tied to India’s Kudankulam nuclear plant leaked
The breach surfaced on the dark web after a cybercriminal group released data cached from a server used by Yotta, and investigators say it does not appear to affect the core reactor systems separately engineered by Russia’s Rosatom.
A data breach has exposed about 19,000 highly sensitive files related to India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, with the documents centered on Units 3 and 4 of the 2,400 MW facility.
OilPrice says the leak was published on the dark web by World Leaks, after its demands for money were ignored. The cache was traced to a server managed by third-party data center provider Yotta, which had detected suspicious activity on a server belonging to Reliance Infrastructure, a Reliance Group subsidiary.
According to the outlet, India’s Nuclear Power Corporation of India and the central cybersecurity agency CERT-In are investigating the incident and have said the documents do not appear to impact the core nuclear reactor systems, which are engineered by Russia’s Rosatom.
OilPrice also notes that security researchers from the Nuclear Threat Initiative warned the exposed information could help bad actors map support systems, identify vendor vulnerabilities, and target parts of the plant’s supply chain. The KKNPP breach is described as the second cyber incident linked to the site.