| ▲ | Squarex a day ago |
| The same thing happened to Slovakia not that long ago. |
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| ▲ | martin_ky 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The Slovak land register was hacked in January 2025. Hackers uknown encrypted the database, asking for an undisclosed 7-figure amount as ransom. The whole country's real estate market was paralyzed for about a month. It took couple of months to restore everything from backups and paper agenda and resume normal operation of the land register office. It was the largest cyber attack in Slovakia's history. The authorities to this day haven't provided any information on who might be behind it. The investigation is still ongoing. Several government figures including the PM were however very eager to immediately point on Ukraine, without any sort of proof. |
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| ▲ | aa_is_op 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | If I remember correctly, this is the hack that Fico tried to blame on Ukraine, even if the hackers were a known Russian ransomware crew that literally posted in their Telegrams about their support for Russia... right? | | |
| ▲ | kakacik 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | fico is russian crony for a long time. On purpose he made the country very dependent on russian oil and especially gas, more than any other EU country (maybe with exception of hungary). 4 years into the war and no migration to other sources is planned so he can every winter go back to blocking things due to . At this point he is just subverting EU on putin's whims. Stealing half of EU funds evidently wasn't enough for him, plus he can see some protection in the east, west has only future jail for him. If one country should be kicked out right now, it should be this one. |
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| ▲ | dredmorbius 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Accounts at the time: "1T+ in assets are frozen as Slovakia's Land Registry faces ransomware attack" <https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/news-digest-...> (9 Jan 2025) HN discussion (1 comment): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650343> "Ransomware Attack Paralyzes Slovakian Land Registry, Souring Slovakia-Ukraine Relations" <https://dailysecurityreview.com/security-spotlight/slovakian...> (January 14, 2025) "Slovakia Hit by Historic Cyber-Attack on Land Registry " <https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/slovakia-hit-by-l...> (10 January 2025) Apparently tied to Ukraine in this case. |
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| ▲ | GJim 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Apparently tied to Ukraine in this case. Lord no! That accusation doesn't pass the sniff test. Try looking further east for the real culprits. | | |
| ▲ | dredmorbius 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ukraine was specifically mentioned in two of the articles I'd referenced, though not in the one originally submitted to HN. I was dubious finding it once, hedged with "apparently" based on the 2nd. I did look for a Wikipedia article on the event which might have included a more substantive and reflective post mortem but didn't find one. If you've specific information clearing or establishing the link, post it. I agree that hasty accusations are risky. The main point I was looking to establish was that the source wasn't indicated as Algerian, as with the Romanian incident. | | |
| ▲ | kakacik 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | fico is extremely against Ukraine and its president, and correspondingly extremely pro-russian to the point of being their lapdog. Their entire government is just a clownshow full or properly primitive incompetent people that make an average MAGA an elite intellectual in comparison, and openly racist/xenophobic extreme right wing bordering neo nazis types (I wonder why those types end up being traitors/collaborators with russians also in other places, I guess easiest group to manipulate/bribe). That they throw guilt on Ukraine doesn't mean anything at all since its all politics to shift blame anywhere but their own incompetency, especially without specific proofs provided (for which there aren't any even 18 months after the crime). |
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| ▲ | smallstepforman 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | NSA is west … |
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| ▲ | boringg a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| how did they solve it? |
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| ▲ | jankubica a day ago | parent | next [-] | | it took months to go back fully online. they also had usable backups (so they used those for the data), but the infrastructure had so many vulnerabilities that they had to fix it first, hence the delay | |
| ▲ | andrewshadura a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Restored from very old backups and paper documents. | | |
| ▲ | N19PEDL2 a day ago | parent [-] | | "Very old" could mean that they were not up to date. What did they do when the backups didn't match the actual situation at the time of the breach? | | |
| ▲ | prmoustache 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You do a comparison with the up to date papers. It just takes ages. | |
| ▲ | petre 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The involved parties and the notaries keep copies of every transaction. | |
| ▲ | wang_li 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Property is not fluid and doesn't change hands very often. Sure, in a large enough market lots of activity happens every day, but any given property is only involved in a transaction once a decade. You can have very old backups and still capture the state of the market to 99%+. Any recent activity will have brokers, buyers, and sellers, who all have current copies of their activity. Also, this sort of event should result in some hackers being found and jailed for life as well as their families being bankrupted permanently. Or, if they are being protected by their government, this should be considered an act of war and an appropriate military response should be delivered. | | |
| ▲ | bannable 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > as well as their families being bankrupted permanently No one thinks bills of attainder are a good idea. | | |
| ▲ | wang_li 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | This wouldn't be a bill of attainder, it's simply an infinite assessment against the criminal's estate that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. I don't personally think that people should inherit their predecessor's debts, but I have no problem with debts being able to capture the entirety of a person's wealth including homes, pensions, jewelry, trusts, any accounts from which benefit is drawn, etc. |
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