Hackers attack Goa’s flood monitoring system; demand Bitcoin
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Goa police registered a first information report (FIR) against an unknown person after the flood monitoring system of the Water Resource Department came under a cyber-attack and hackers demanded bitcoins cryptocurrency. The news soon broke on social media with several people tweeting and the development. According to the department’s executive engineer Sunil Karmarkar, the server had been subjected to a ransomware cyberattack and all files were encrypted with the ‘eking extension” and could not be viewed. He also added that the attackers demanded Bitcoin in lieu of data decryption. As a result of the attack, the department lost all of its historical data which can now not be backed up locally, as well as real-time data of the rivers that are currently flooding. Source