Attempts were made to disrupt power supply, says Nitin Raut

Two days after claiming that the October 12 power blackout was the result of a cyber-attack, Maharashtra energy minister Nitin Raut failed to clearly reiterate it while replying to a question in the assembly on Wednesday.

Raut just said the Centre had warned there were attempts to disrupt power supply but they were not successful. Raut said after the blackout, he had asked the cyber cell to investigate the causes and it had given its report.

“14 Trojan horses, known to be quite malicious, entered the systems of MahaTransco and tried to disrupt the power supply,” he quoted from the report. However, “tried to disrupt” was at variance with his Monday’s statement that a preliminary inquiry had confirmed suspicions that the blackout was the result of a cyber-attack.


“It has been found that the Trojan horses/malware had easily penetrated the IT and OT servers responsible for supplying power,” he quoted from the report.