Greece's Land Registry reports hundreds of hacker attacks, claims only minor data breach
Take action: The response by the Greek ministries is equivalent to "lies, damn lies and statistics". Nobody cares that hackers stole ONLY 1.2 gigabytes of 200 terabytes. There is a lot of data in 1.2 gigabytes, and it's unclear what the government will do to protect it's citizens, or whether they will enforce the MFA that was missing for the breached accounts.
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The Greek Ministry of Digital Governance has reported a series of cyberattacks on Greece’s land registry system, although they claim that no critical data was compromised.
Over 400 cyberattacks were attempted, and while the hackers managed to gain entry to a server containing backup, they were unable to exfiltrate data to an external server "outside of the country". The attack was executed from two different sites using employee passwords, and the absence of two-step authentication facilitated unauthorized access.
Apparently, hackers breached a server containing backups but did not access the main database. There is a data breach since Internal documents amounting to 1.2 gigabytes were stolen from staff terminals. No details are disclosed about the breached data. The stolen files apparently represent a minuscule fraction (0.00059%) of the total 200 terabytes stored in the agency’s systems.
The statistics of how little data was stolen is very misleading, since it's still 1.2 gigabtes of data from computers processing property data and personal data of citizens. There is a lot of data in 1.2 gigabytes.
The Miniistry states that the citizens' private data remains safe, as the exfiltrated data did not include personal or financial information. No property transactions were affected by the breach.
