Religare Securities says suffers cyber attack

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Religare Securities has suffered a "virus attack of medium severity" but its systems, operations and sensitive client information "remain secure and unaffected", it said in a statement on Monday.

Religare added the attack had been "proactively handled" and noted "necessary damage control steps" had been initiated.

(Reporting by Savio Shetty, Rajendra Jadhav and Rafael Nam; editing by Jason Neely)