ECG suffered losses of up to GH₵500 million due to ransomware attack- Dubik Mahama
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), according to its managing director Samuel Dubik Mahama, suffered a ransomware attack that cost the firm between GH₵400 million and GH₵500 million.
Dubik Mahama corroborated the Vice President’s earlier statement in an interview with Bernard Avle on The Point of View on Channel One TV. He also went into depth about the serious effects the ransomware had on ECG’s operations.
According to Mahama, the incident happened at a crucial time when the business was going through an operational turnaround that included system upgrades and fixes.
“Don’t forget that, within those periods, we were going through an operational turnaround, where we were fixing our systems…That was the same year within which we had the ransomware attack thing that we managed to take care of.
“For me, what I will say to that is there’s an investigation going on, so maybe probably, the Vice President is privy to the final investigation report or has some inkling towards whatever is going on there. But I have not been furnished. There was an attack, there’s no two ways about that.
On May 9, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president and leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), revealed that certain ECG employees were undermining the government’s initiatives to digitize revenue collection.
Dr. Bawumia revealed at the Annual General Meeting of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa that ransomware was introduced by certain ECG IT staff members, preventing the system from operating as intended.
