The administration of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday dismissed as “false information” the reports that the atomic power plant came under cyber-attack recently, after an expert in the field said that he had reported about the “intrusion” to the government.
An official statement issued by KKNPP said that the control systems of the two plants in Kudankulam, 706 km from here, and other atomic plants in the country are “stand alone” and are “not connected to outside cyber network and internet”.
Several users on Twitter claimed that a data dump on VirusTotal, a virus tracking website, suggested that Lazarus, the North Korea-based hacker group, might have gained access to some of the systems at KKNPP.
