An Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company has reportedly suffered a major cyberattack in which company data, including information linked to its medicine module, was allegedly accessed and its computer systems disrupted. The report has prompted an inquiry involving the State Cyber Crime Cell and cyber experts after an application was submitted at a police station in western Ahmedabad.
According to information attributed to sources in the report by Gujarat Samachar, hackers allegedly accessed the company’s data and demanded ₹30 crore in exchange for restoring or returning it. The attackers were described in the report as Chinese hackers, although the identity and location of the perpetrators have not been independently confirmed in the supplied material.
The compromised information allegedly included data from the company’s medicine module, along with other company records. The reported breach disrupted the pharmaceutical company’s systems, but the supplied report does not specify the duration of the disruption, the number of systems affected or whether patient, employee or customer information was accessed.
The report also states that the company may have paid the alleged ransom through a cryptocurrency wallet to recover the data. That payment has been described as a matter of discussion rather than an officially confirmed transaction. The supplied material does not identify the wallet, the cryptocurrency involved or the amount transferred.
A police application was reportedly submitted at a police station in Ahmedabad’s western area. Following this, the State Cyber Crime Cell and a specialised team of cyber experts are said to have begun investigating the incident. The investigation is being handled sensitively, and officials have not publicly released detailed information, according to the report.
The reported effort to block the ransom funds is now part of the investigation. The source material does not establish whether the money was successfully traced or frozen, whether the company’s systems have been fully restored, or whether any arrests have been made. Confirmation from the police, the State Cyber Crime Cell or the pharmaceutical company would be required to establish the attack’s scale, the attackers’ identity and the alleged ransom payment.
