The Central Depository Services Limited (India) or CDSL detected a malware attack on Friday affecting several internal machines.
The Central Depository Services Limited (India) or CDSL detected a malware attack on Friday affecting several internal machines.
Mumbai-based CDSL is India’s second-largest depository that holds to, maintains and services nearly 75 million trader accounts - locally called delay accounts - of investors across the country.
On Friday, settlement services were affected due to cyber attacks on a few of its internal machines. Brokers said that services such as pay-in, pay-out, pledge, or unpledged securities were down due to system failure at the CDSL, but trading was not affected.
CDSL added that the company instantly isolated the machines and detached itself from other capital market constituents.
According to the investigation, the company states that there is no reason to believe confidential information or investor data has been compromised because of the incident.
The company notified the incident to the relevant authorities and is working with its cyber security experts to analyse the impact.
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