Ransomware attack disrupts India's TG-iPASS industrial approval services
The TG-iPASS portal in India's Telangana state suffered service disruption from 22 October after a ransomware attack encrypted its database. Industrial approval operations were affected, and the recovery of the data was subsequently reported. Telangana's cybercrime investigation agency is investigating the cyber-attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Government of Telangana
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-10-22
- Scale of damage
- TG-iPASS portal outage and disruption to industrial approval operations
- Cause / method
- Database encryption caused by a ransomware attack
- Location
- India
Timeline
- The TG-iPASS portal began experiencing service disruption.
- It was reported that a ransomware attack had encrypted the database and taken the portal offline.
- The recovery of TG-iPASS data was reported.
- A possible link between the attack and Türkiye was raised.
- It was reported that Telangana's cybercrime investigation agency was investigating the attack.
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