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Date at which wanna cry attack happened in india

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Over 200,000 systems in 104 countries affected.
Russia, India worst hit in the attack.
No hacker has yet claimed responsibility.
The Wanna Cry ransomware attack - one of the largest ever cyber attacks - appeared to be slowing around 24 hours after it wrecked havoc and shut down tens of thousands of computer systems across 104 countries.

The slow down happened soon after 'MalwareTech', a Britain-based security researcher, accidentally discovered a 'kill switch' to halt the Wanna Cry attack. Experts, however, warned that enterprising hackers could circumvent MalwareTech's fix.

Over 200,000 systems around the world were affected in the Wanna Cry attack, a tracker developed by a security researcher called 'MalwareTech' showed. Czech Republic-based anti-virus provider Avast, however, gave a more conservative estimate of around 126,000 systems being affected, news agency Reuters reported.

INDIA TARGETED

India was among the countries worst affected by the Wanna Cry attack, data shared by Kaspersky, a Russian anti-virus company, showed. According to initial calculations performed soon after the malware struck on Friday night, around five per cent of all computers affected in the attack were in India.

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at a Helsinki-based cyber security company called F-Secure, told news agency AFP that the it was the biggest ransomware outbreak in history and estimated that 130,000 systems in more than 100 countries had been affected.

Hypponen added that Russia and India were hit particularly hard, largely because Microsoft's Windows XP - one of the operating systems most at risk - was still widely used in the countries.

News agency IANS reported that police computers across 18 units in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor, Krishna, Guntur, Visakhatpatnam and Srikakulam districts were affected. However, apart from that, there was no immediate information on the extent of the ransomware's hold on Indian systems.



OFFICIAL: NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN

However, India's top cyber security official indicated there was no need for concern.

National Cyber Security Advisor Gulshan Rai, who works out of the Prime Minister's Office, said, "There are about a 100 systems attacked in India and as of now there are no more threats," according to a Times of India report published late Saturday night.

"We understand systems in Andhra Pradesh are impacted, but so far our assessment is that there isn't much impact," Rai said in another report. Rai went on to add that a better understanding of the ransomware's effect in India would only happen on Monday after offices open.