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Hacker, the data of the State Police for sale on Telegram?

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Hacker, the data of the State Police for sale on Telegram?

The data apparently exfiltrated by the State Police on a Telegram channel is on sale online according to what reported by Sofia Scozzari, founder and CEO of Hackmanac and member of the scientific committee of Clusit, the Italian Association for IT Security

Stolen the data of the Italian State Police?

This is what appears from the report made this morning on Twitter by Sofia Scozzari, founder and CEO of Hackmanac and member of the scientific committee of Clusit , the Italian Association for IT Security. According to his tweet, data that appears to have been exfiltrated by the State Police has been on sale since last night on a Telegram channel.

According to Scozzari's tweet, the data is on sale for $5,000 and several samples are provided. The nature of the data or how it was obtained is not specified.

At the moment there are no other news or reports on the possible theft of data from the Police.

What is certain is that the number of attacks on the public administration in Italy has grown dramatically, as reported by the data in the latest Clusit report, involving public structures and government bodies.

Among other things, the latest episode is recent: in early May, a ransomware-type hacker attack hit the ASL of L'Aquila. On the night of 3 May, the Asl 1 computer system was blocked following a hacker attack, the L'Aquila health company had immediately admitted on its website. "All the technical verification activities are underway to restore full operation of the computer systems in the shortest possible time in total safety".

But in addition to the emergency that brought the computer system to its knees, paralyzing the services and benefits of the ASL 1, a serious violation of citizens' privacy followed. In fact, reports and tests of the patients of the Avezzano-L'Aquila-Sulmona Asl are online.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/cybersecurity/hacker-i-dati-della-polizia-di-stato-in-vendita-su-telegram/ on Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:42:33 +0000.