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NLC leaks its Private keys and sensitive information – A heartbleed Hack on NLC

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Dissent

Manoj Kumar Thambulingam reports:

NLCIndia.com—one of the Indian Government Navarathna award winning public sector enterprise, providing several services through web interface  — has reportedly been hacked , exposing the site’s user credentials.NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation) is an Indian Goverment owned Lignite mining and power generating company . And it was one of the elite company of India. It has owned 7 Thermal power stations and four main lignite mines within state of TamilNadu.

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The leaked data has usernames, email address, Passwords, and other personal information of NLC employees.

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The Security researchers claimed that they reported the vulnerability by providing Proof of concept of the flaw. However , the enterprise didn’t respond to their report and ignored, which results in expose of data in public. And they claimed “This hack is not in purpose of harm the server and User Data’s. It is just a security Reminder. They Must Update to latest version for patch else others will intrude”. Now this post on Twitter is removed.

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