Records supposedly contain tax data for 5 million citizens (Bulgaria’s population is approximately 7 million) over a span of 10 years, some of them now deceased. It took only a couple of hours for blackhat hackers to crack the password and share it via underground forums. The package was password-protected, so one of the local stations saw no harm in showing the download link on TV. Last Tuesday, Bulgarian media received such an email from a account along with an anonfile link to approximately 10 GB of data – supposedly half of all the data stolen from the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (a department of the Ministry of Finance). This email is bulk sent to every single Bulgarian media as well as Reuters and BBC. At the moment of writing, the authorities still haven’t been able to determine who was behind the attack and what was the reason for it. The stolen databases are already available for download via underground forums. The attacker sent half of the data as proof to many Bulgarian and international media sources. On July 16, the world found out that the tax data of millions of Bulgarian citizens have been stolen.
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