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  1. 2022

    Assam CID takes over investigation into ransomware attack on Oil India

    Investigation

    Assam CID took over the investigation into a ransomware attack on Oil India Limited’s computer systems at its Duliajan headquarters. Oil India said the attack slowed operations; a spokesperson said drilling and production operations were not impacted.

    Company response

    • Remediation — Oil India Limited

      following which the oil major shut down all affected systems and started working to resolve the matter

    Source excerpt

    • The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Assam has officially taken over, and will investigate the ransomware attack on the computer systems at Oil India Limited’s headquarters at Duliajan town in Dibruagarh district of the northeastern State, confirmed Assam Police to MediaNama.
    • “A complaint was made on April 12, that Oil India was hit by a ransomware attack and that it had slowed down their operations. The case has now been taken over by CID,” Dibrugarh Superintendent of Police Shwetank Mishra told MediaNama over phone.
    • Hazarika also informed that the virus infected computers were removed from LAN connections. “Our operations, the key elements of our day-to-day activities — drilling, and production operations have not been impacted at all… The ERP platform, which we use for our business transactions, is also up and running.
    Source