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Data breach reportedly targets India\u2019s Kudankulam nuclear power plant | Cybersecurity News<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Purported blueprints of parts of India\u2019s largest plant exposed by World Leaks ransomeware group, Reuters reports.Published On 16 Jul 202616 Jul 2026A data breach has reportedly revealed files linked to India\u2019s largest nuclear power plant, according to the Reuters news agency.Ransomware group World Leaks posted \u2060\u2060on the dark web a huge cache of files related to Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities and supplier details \u2013 information it labelled as coming from Reliance Group, said Reuters on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe Nuclear Power Corporation of India later said the data breach did not reveal any sensitive information related to nuclear security.Kudankulam in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is the largest of India\u2019s seven nuclear plants, and central to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s ambitious plans to \u2060\u2060expand atomic energy capacity.Indian businessman Anil Ambani\u2019s Reliance Group, one of the plant\u2019s contractors, told Reuters that there had been a \u201cpartial breach\u201d of its data on a server hosted by third-party Indian data centre service provider Yotta, and that the government has been informed.Reliance did not disclose what data had been breached.Nearly 19,000 files totalling 14.3 gigabytes that appear for the search term \u201cKKNP\u201d \u2013 an acronym for the nuclear plant \u2013 in the data have been online since June 11 , according to independent cybersecurity researcher Rakesh Krishnan, who first alerted Reuters to the leak.Reuters reviewed the documents, which were dated from 2016 to mid-2025, but could not verify their authenticity.In addition to some blueprints and supplier details, they purportedly show meeting and inspection records, equipment reviews and insurance policies.The 19,000 files appeared to be the most sensitive of 858,000 Reliance files on \u200c\u200cthe World Leaks website.One of the conglomerate\u2019s subsidiaries, Reliance Infrastructure, won a contract in 2018 to design and build infrastructure for the plant\u2019s Unit 3 and Unit 4. Both units, still under construction, are due to be operational by next year and are designed to provide a combined 2,000 megawatts of capacity.The data breach could pose a \u201cserious\u201d risk to the safety of the plant, Nickolas Roth told Reuters. He is a senior director at \u2060\u2060the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which advises governments and benchmarks countries\u2019 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.The Nuclear Power Corporation of India, which commissions and operates nuclear power plants, has been communicating with Reliance about the breach. India\u2019s main cybersecurity agency \u2013 the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) \u2013 is looking into the incident, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The \u2060\u2060source declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.The Nuclear Power Corporation said in a statement that the information said to \u2060\u2060be available in the public domain pertains only to common service facilities and does not relate to any nuclear safety or nuclear security-related systems.World Leaks, a well-known ransomware group that has previously targeted Nike and India\u2019s Tata Group, did not respond to Reuters\u2019 queries on the Reliance data breach. The group typically posts stolen corporate data on its website after companies decline to pay the ransom demanded. Its website can only be accessed with a specialised browser.Last month, World Leaks told Reuters it demanded $1.5 million in ransom for Tata Group files containing confidential component designs of clients Apple and Tesla, adding that it posted the data after Tata \u201cignored\u201d its demand.
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