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Water Board says No Data Breach; 10,000 fake messages sent
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board has confirmed that no data breach occurred during a cyberattack on its SMSContinue Reading
Summary
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board has confirmed that no data breach occurred during a cyberattack on its SMS gateway on Sunday. The messages falsely claimed that the system had been hacked and demanded a ransom of 1.5 Bitcoin for data recovery. Customer data was not compromised, officials said.
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- Pradeep Herath2
- Charuka Damunupola
Organisations
- National Water Supply and Drainage Board2
- National Water Supply and Drainage Board.During
- Computer Emergency Readiness Team
- Sri Lanka Cricket
Places
- Sri Lanka
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- breach2
- data2
- cyberattack
- smscontinue
- confirms
- messages
- system
- fake
- says
- sent
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