{"id":1032370,"date":"2026-09-01T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032370"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:24:35","slug":"rs-20-mn-ransom-sought-in-publishing-house-cyberattack-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/01\/rs-20-mn-ransom-sought-in-publishing-house-cyberattack-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 20 mn ransom sought in publishing house cyberattack in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A ransomware attack on renowned publishing house Orient Blackswan disrupted its IT infrastructure and encrypted critical business data, with attackers demanding Rs 20 million to restore access. <\/p>\n<p>According to Hyderabad cybercrime police, the incident came to light after K Ananth Shekar, vice-president (administration) of the publishing house, lodged a complaint. <\/p>\n<p>He said the company\u2019s systems were compromised around 11.55 pm on August 27, following which critical data was encrypted without authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A ransomware attack on renowned publishing house Orient Blackswan disrupted its IT infrastructure and encrypted critical business data, with attackers demanding Rs 20 million to restore access. According to Hyderabad cybercrime police, the incident came to light after K Ananth Shekar, vice-president (administration) of the publishing house, lodged a complaint. He said the company\u2019s systems were compromised around 11.55 pm on August 27, following which critical data was encrypted without authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032398,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032370\/revisions\/1032398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}