Security News > 2024 > July > Greece’s Land Registry agency breached in wave of 400 cyberattacks
The Land Registry agency in Greece has announced that it suffered a limited-scope data breach following a wave of 400 cyberattacks targeting its IT infrastructure over the last week.
The agency said hackers managed to compromise employee terminals and steal 1.2 GB of data, corresponding to roughly 0.0006% of the total data held by the government organization.
The Land Registry's internal investigation, aided by the Cybersecurity Directorate of the General Staff of National Defense, has not found any evidence of ransomware having been deployed on the breached systems.
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