A personal computer (PC) at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu was infected with a malware on September 4, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted on Wednesday but said the systems at the atomic power plant have not been affected.
The admission by the NPCIL, which operates the nuclear power plant in Tirunelveli district, comes a day after KKNPP dismissed as “false information” reports that the atomic power plant came under cyber-attack recently after an expert in the field said he had alerted about the “intrusion” to the government.
Though NPCIL’s statement does not mention that the target of the cyber-attack was the KKNP, the admission corroborates with the version of cyber threat intelligence analyst Pukhraj Singh who had on Tuesday made public the news that attackers might have managed to get domain controller-level access at KKNPP.
