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Sri Lanka's Finance Ministry has said that the computer system of the External Resources Department has been hacked by cyber hackers who gained unauthorised access and carried out a theft involving a foreign currency payment. The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on Wednesday said it has already lodged complaints with law enforcement agencies and other relevant institutions regarding the theft. "Cyber hackers have gained unauthorised access to the computer system of an External Resources Department within the institution," the ministry statement said. The statement came to be issued after the opposition claimed that USD 2.5 million of treasury funds had gone to an account other than the relevant foreign debt repayment account of Australian origin. A group of opposition lawyers wrote to the speaker of parliament that in September 2025, Sri Lanka was due to pay USD 22.9 million dollars to a creditor. USD 2.5 million, being a partial payment of that amount, had b
Indian airports have not faced any adverse impact so far in relation to the cyber attack on systems used at various European airports, a senior government official said on Saturday. London Heathrow, Berlin and some other airports in Europe are grappling with operational disruptions due to the cyber attack incident at systems of Collins Aerospace that are used at the airports. Following the cyber attack issue at various European airports, authorities took an update about the operations at Indian airports, the government official said. There has been no adverse impact on Indian airports till now in relation to the European cyber security incident. According to the official, Collins MUSE application is mainly used in European countries and only some European airports have been impacted so far. There has been no official comments from airport operators in India against the backdrop of the issues being faced by European airports. "A third-party passenger system disruption at Heathrow