India's Largest Nuclear Power Plant Documents Leaked Online

New Delhi. Thousands of sensitive documents connected to India's largest nuclear power plant Kudankulam have been leaked. According to news agency Reuters, hacker group 'World Lix' has claimed to have uploaded these documents to the dark web.

Leaked details include blueprints of some parts of the nuclear plant, lists of suppliers, control rooms, and other important records have been made public. Although it is claimed that the server was hacked last May and the documents were leaked in June, the information has only recently been made public.

Reliance Group of Anil Ambani, working on the Kudankulam project in Tamil Nadu, has accepted that the server of third-party data center company 'Yotta' was hacked and has informed the government about it. Reliance Infrastructure is the contractor company for the Unit-3 and Unit-4 project of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and some of its data was stored on Yotta's server.

Yotta had claimed to have stopped the cyber attack after detecting suspicious activity on its server on May 29. However, at the end of June, Reliance informed Yotta that the hacker group named 'World Lix' had stolen its data.

Out of about 8 lakh 58 thousand files placed on the dark web, it is claimed that approximately 19 thousand sensitive documents have been uploaded, which allegedly include blueprints, supplier details, inspection records, and important meeting documents.

Currently, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is reviewing this matter in coordination with Reliance, and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has also started an investigation into this data leak.

According to nuclear security experts, if these documents on the dark web are genuine, any attacker can easily understand the support system, supply chain, and security arrangements of the nuclear power plant through them, which can significantly increase the overall security risk.

Earlier in 2019, it was confirmed that malware from a hacker group linked to North Korea was found on the administrative network of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, although at that time NPCIL claimed that the plant's operating system was secure.