It has been reported on Monday that many branches of India's Religare financial services group racked with a cyber attack. Fortunately, its systems, operations and sensitive client information were secure and unaffected.The affected company officials said that the attack was of medium severity and necessary counter steps to prevent damage and defend the attack has been taken.Religare offers a broad range of financial services including equities and commodity trading under holding company Religare Enterprises Ltd.The attack was experienced when the rest of the world was behind the two major global infections which contained ransomware requests, a couple of months back. The type of infection Religare was hit is not yet clear.The Reuters reported that the cyber attack had affected servers on Monday and that at least some of the internal IT systems at the brokerage had been shut down. Some staff had lost access to computer systems as technical teams worked to fix the problem.
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