India repelled an estimated two lakh cyberattacks aimed at its power infrastructure over the past week during Operation Sindoor, Union Power Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced on Thursday.

“Since the advancement in technology, new dangers emerged — cyberattacks or cybercrimes. There has been an increase in these, but the government worked on it, and our cybersecurity almost stopped all such dangers,” Khattar explained to journalists.

He addressed a press conference on the completion of 11 years of the BJP-led Central government.

“There have been many cyberattacks on the country. As far as the Power department is concerned, around two lakh cyberattacks were attempted, but our cyber department foiled each one of them, and there were no losses,” the minister stated.

Khattar further clarified that the attempts happened over “eight to ten days” around the time Operation Sindoor was underway.

When asked whether the attacks came from within the country or from outside, the minister replied that such attacks could happen from any corner of the world.

“It is known worldwide that those against us will do things like these, but we have stopped such attacks. Our system is capable, and in the future also, we will foil all such attacks,” he asserted.

“When someone fails for the first time, and second time, he will ultimately get discouraged and stop,” he added.