Breaches and incidents
Reliance Infrastructure (India): World Leaks posts Kudankulam project files from a Yotta-hosted server, Reliance confirms “partial breach”
Reuters (15 Jul) reported nearly 19,000 files linked to the Kudankulam nuclear project, among 858,000 Reliance files on World Leaks’ site.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Confirmed by two or more outlets
What happened
- Reuters (15 Jul) reported nearly 19,000 files linked to the Kudankulam nuclear project, among 858,000 Reliance files on World Leaks’ site; Reliance Group confirmed a “partial breach” of data on a server hosted by Yotta Data Services without saying what was taken. Researcher Rakesh Krishnan said the data was available from 11 Jun. NPCIL says leaked material relates only to conventional systems.
- Root cause: not disclosed. Yotta told Reuters it detected suspicious activity on a Reliance Infrastructure server on 29 May 2026 and stopped what it believed was an attempted ransomware execution; Reliance told Yotta about external claims only at end of June.
- Attacker: World Leaks (data-extortion group, rebrand of Hunters International) per its leak site, as reported by Reuters and MediaNama.
- Response: CERT-In reportedly investigating (Reuters source); NPCIL in contact with Reliance.