- Customers of around 300 small-sized lenders, including cooperative and regional rural banks, have been unable to access payment services like ATM withdrawals and UPI due to a ransomware attack at technology service provider C-Edge Technologies.
- C-Edge Technologies is a joint venture between SBI and TCS.
- The attack had affected Brontoo Technology Solutions, a key collaborator of C-Edge Technologies, and was carried out by a ransomware group called RansomEXX, according to a report by cyber-security firm CloudSEK.
- The issue has persisted for the past two days following the discovery of a system breach at C-Edge.
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