However, Wannacry has proved less severe than anticipated in Asia
The global Ransomware Attack has
affected several computers of a state power distribution company in
West Bengal but the central government computer system has largely
escaped, officials said on Monday.
State
agencies that manage government websites and build supercomputers have
installed security patches issued by Microsoft Corp.
Federal
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters that there was no serious
impact on India, with only isolated incidents in parts of Kerala and
Andhra Pradesh states, and the government was monitoring the situation.
However, West Bengal Power Minister Sovandev Chattopadhyay told Reuters that
several billing centres of the state's Electricity Distribution Company
Ltd (WBSEDCL) had been infected by the ransomware worm.
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"The
full extent and magnitude of the problem will be realised by tomorrow,"
he said, the situation will be very serious if household electricity
consumption data from the central server of the utility could not be
retrieved beforehand.
A
power department official who did not want to be named said billing for
around 800,000 households was affected when the ransomware blocked
access to files in the computers.
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