In rush to be GST ready, companies leaving security loopholes

On the surface, the link between the Goods and Services Tax (GST), India’s biggest-ever tax reform, and ransomware Wanna-Cry appears tenuous. And yet, to the surprise of a Mumbai based mid-sized company, PwC’s cyber security team stumbled upon security loopholes in the newly implemented information technology (IT) infrastructure for GST, underscoring the risk of the malware that affected 300,000 c…