Ransomware group ‘World Leaks’ has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to Kudankulam nuclear power plant, India’s largest, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities and supplier details information it labelled as coming from Reliance Group.The Kudankulam nuclear power plant, located in Tamil Nadu, is the largest of India’s seven nuclear plants and central to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plans to expand the country’s atomic energy capacity.The data breach could pose a “serious” risk to the safety of the plant, says Nickolas Roth, a senior director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which advises governments and benchmarks countries’ preparedness on nuclear security. The breach also underscores how hacks have become more common in India, where many companies are ill-equipped to deal with such threats. Should sensitive data be stored on the internet ?
