A power failure that crippled India’s financial capital of Mumbai in western Maharashtra state last year could have been a case of cyber sabotage, a local minister said on Monday, as China denied a report that it was behind the outage.<\/p>\n
Mumbai police were investigating further after a preliminary report pointed to possible evidence of 14 “Trojan horse” programmes incorporated in the city’s power system, Anil Deshmukh, a minister for Maharashtra state, told a news conference.<\/p>\n
Deshmukh was speaking a day after a New York Times report said https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/china-india-hacking-electricity.html that the power outage on October 12 last year was part of a Chinese cyber campaign against India, even as the two countries were locked in a fierce border battle.<\/p>\n
A Chinese embassy spokesperson denied the allegations in the New York Times report, in response to request for comment from Reuters.<\/p>\n
“Speculation & fabrication have no role to play on the issue of cyber attacks. Highly irresponsible to accuse a particular party with no sufficient evidence around,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in India tweeted late Monday in response to Reuters’ request for comments.<\/p>\n
Millions were left without power, trains were stranded and online college exams and mobile telephone services collapsed after a grid failure that affected all of Mumbai and lasted for more than 12 hours in some parts of the city.<\/p>\n
At the time, local authorities said the failure was caused due to “technical problems”, but an inquiry was ordered into the incident.<\/p>\n
“The preliminary report was handed over to the power ministry. We will investigate it further,” Deshmukh said at Monday’s news conference.<\/p>\n
Relations between nuclear-armed neighbours China and India soured last June when 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in a Himalayan border fight. Recent talks have eased tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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