Monday, August 29, 2016

Data million Americans at risk. The biggest cyber attack in history – m.niezalezna.pl

Be careful, someone might take you a loan or buy a refrigerator in installments, and you do this you will not know. Employees of the office of bailiff five married fraudulently data from the Social Security database. Probably they wanted to sell it to someone. The case is the prosecutor’s office.

Five bailiff offices, including one from Warsaw and Lodz, downloaded from servers register of Social Security numbers, personal data about 2 million people. One of the office was to obtain data thus 800 thousand. people. Executors night taking from tens to hundreds of thousands of records from the database monthly Social Security. According to the website Niebezpiecznik.pl Ministry officials Digitization noticed a lot of traffic in the Social Security system, and probably through the analysis of access to the database identified the computers from which the information was collected.

According to unofficial information, the bailiff firms want to trade your personal information. However, neither the Ministry of Digitization or District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, which opened an investigation into the matter, do not confirm these reports.



In this case we are not talking about the break-firm debt collectors to databases, because they have legal access to them. There is only a suspicion that the data can be used in the wrong way and exceeding the powers

– says in an interview with “Everyday” Karol Manys, a spokesman for the Ministry of Digitalization.

We have a theory when it comes to goals download data bailiff offices. But we can not talk about them, because an investigation into this matter is ongoing. Currently, we secured data carriers and equipment. I can only say that the data was not made available to external entities, but that does not mean that there was no abuse by employees Office

– tells us Michael Dziekański , spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw.

If the information is confirmed, it would be the biggest attack in the history of Polish cybercrime.

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