India’s leading central securities depository, Central Depository Services Limited, or CDSL, says its systems have been compromised by malware.
On Friday, the securities depository said in a filing with India’s National Stock Exchange that it detected malware affecting “a few of its internal machines.”
“As a matter of abundant caution, the company immediately isolated the machines and disconnected itself from other constituents of the capital market,” the filing said.
CSDL said it continues to investigate, and that it has so far “no reason to believe that any confidential information or the investor data has been compromised” due to the incident.
CDSL has not yet revealed the exact details of the malware. At the time of writing, the company’s website was down. The company declined to say if the two a …
