The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has denied that a “cyber attack” took place at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant at Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu and said false information was being spread about the same.
The Indian tech-Twitter space has been abuzz with bits and pieces of a possibly startling revelation since last night that a cyber-attack may have taken place at the already controversial nuclear power plant.
In a statement, NPCIL Information Officer R. Ramdoss said that false information was being spread on social, print and electronic media with regard to the Kudankulam nuclear facility.
“This is to clarify Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) and other Indian Nuclear Power Plants Control are standalone and not connected to outside cyber network and Internet. Any cyber-attack on the Nuclear Power Plant Control System is not possible. Presently, KKNPP Unit-1 and 2 are operating at 1000 MWe and 600 Mwe respectively without any operational or safety concerns,” the statement said.
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Speculation picked up pace when Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted about a potential cybersecurity threat, quoting a cyber-intelligence expert:
The murmurs on social media began after the following a tweet from an anonymous account on Twitter:
On October 19th, news agency IANS had reported that the second plant at Kudankulam had stopped operation that day. It is not known when the operations resumed in the past 10 days.
