UPSRTC TICKETING WEBSITE HACKED

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 Luck now (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 27 (ANI): A Cyber hacker hacked the ticketing system of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC), officials said on Thursday.


UPSRTC further mentioned that hackers have demanded money to restore the system. “Hacker encrypted the data of the passengers and demanded a ransom of Rs 40 corers in bit coins in Indian currency valuation for returning this data to the Transport Department. The hacker also threatened to double the amount if the money is not received in two days,” the official said. “Orion Pro Company is responsible for the online ticketing system of the Transport Corporation. Orion Pro’s data centre was hacked by cyber hackers on Tuesday. 

Due to this, the data of the entire server got hacked,” the official added. In this regard, UPSRTC General Manager (IT) Yajuvendra Singh said that a case has been registered under the IT Act for damaging online data. “A case has been registered with the Cybercrime police station under the IT Act for damaging online data, hacking data, sending objectionable material and information on the server, demanding extortion and obstructing government work. An investigation is underway,” he said. (ANI) This report is auto-generated from ANI news service.



International gang of cyber thugs believed to be behind the incident, corporation claims bus services have not been affected in any way LUCKNOW The ticketing website of UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) was hacked early Wednesday, bringing all its online booking related operations to a standstill, said officials.



For now tickets to passengers are being issued manually. An international gang of cyber thugs is believed to be behind the incident. It may take over a week for the UPSRTC to fix and restart the website even though the corporation claimed that bus services have not been affected in any way. “We have registered an FIR in the cyber thana at Gomti Nagar and Orion Pro, the company managing the website, has lodged a complaint in Mumbai against the hacking of the website,” said Sanjay Kumar, managing director, UPSRTC. “An international gang of hackers may have hacked the portal,” he added. 


By- RAHUL SAINI

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