‘Cyber attack on UHBVN’s meter reading system’

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The cyber attack has not at all affected the billing of about 4,000 industrial consumers as the backup of the billing data is available with the UHBVN.

UHBVN SPOKESPERSON

CHANDIGARH:The automatic meter reading (AMR) system of Haryana power utilities at Panchkula came under cyber attack last week, a Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) spokesperson said.

“The cyber attack on the AMR has not at all affected the billing of about 4,000 industrial consumers as the backup of the billing data is available with the UHBVN,” a Nigam spokesperson said.

The cyber attack took place on March 21 on the AMR through which the billing of about industrial consumers is being done, he said. “There is no loss of billing data. Consumers would not be affected. There is no business loss,” the spokesperson said.

He said immediately after the cyber attack the complete system study was carried out by the officers concerned, cyber expert as well as other IT experts. The database was found encrypted and the backup of encrypted database was also taken for further retrieval. An FIR has been accordingly lodged.

The Nigam had already taken steps much before to phase out the said system and to be replaced by latest, robust and technologically advanced system on cloud services which would be operational by the end of May 2018. The billing of about 4,000 consumers has already started functioning normally, he added

“The database was found encrypted and the backup of encrypted database was also taken for further retrieval,” he said.