The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) explained that it would not pay any money for the purported loss suffered by Tech Mahindra.
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) explained that it would not pay any money for the purported loss suffered by Tech Mahindra.
Political parties, too, are demandingaction against Tech Mahindra in connection with the ransomware attack on the Pimpri-Chinchwad Smart City Project.
The ransomware attack took place on February 26, infecting the PCMC servers. The attackers have demanded the ransom to be paid in Bitcoins.
On March 9, a criminal offence was registered at the Nigdi police station by Mahendra Laxminarayan Lathi (55), manager at Tech Mahindra. The venture includes discovering technological options to points, together with a metropolis community, visitors, sewerage, good water, parking, atmosphere, information centre, CCTV surveillance, and catastrophe restoration centre, amongst others.
The company lodged a complaint estimating the loss at Rs 5 crore. Municipal Commissioner Rajesh Patil mentioned the civic physique wouldn’t pay for the loss. The civic body said they didn’t endure any harm when it comes to data leakage.
PCMC IT Officer Neelkanth Poman mentioned: “We are surprised by the police complaint lodged by Tech Mahindra. We believe they can restore the system. There is no justification for any loss. The PCMC will not pay anything to the firm. We have told them so.”
The Tech Mahindra reported that even though it has filed the complaint to estimate the loss, it won’t seek any reimbursement from the PCMC and restore the system.
Sujit Baksi, president of company affairs, Tech Mahindra, mentioned: “On February 26, we were informed about the ransomware attack on PCMC servers. The team briefed the whole situation to the cybersecurity officials and filed an FIR with the police. After a detailed investigation of the situation in the past ten days, we have come to the conclusion that 25 servers are impacted, which need to be rebuilt along with the implementation of a robust security system. Our team is monitoring the situation regularly and has also continued the work on rebuilding the environment without touching the infected servers.”
Maval Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Barne said that the cyber attack puts forward questions about the security of people. There must be a thorough investigation into it, and the guilty should be punished.
BJP Corporator Seema Savale said, “The attack shows that proper firewall has not been built by the company for the systems. Also, the company has made several contradictory statements in the FIR. It’s clear that it’s trying to hide something.”
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