India, June 1 -- The Bombay High Court has granted urgent ad-interim relief to HDFC Asset Management Company (AMC) after the company informed the court that a ransomware group identifying itself as "Morpheus" had allegedly exfiltrated more than 680 GB of sensitive and confidential data from its IT infrastructure.

Justice Shreeram V Shirsat, hearing the matter during the court vacation, observed that there was a "persistent threat" of the stolen data being leaked online and restrained the unidentified hackers from using, publishing or disseminating the information pending further hearing.

The order was passed in an interim application filed by HDFC Asset Management Company in its commercial intellectual property suit against the Union of...