Ragnar Locker hackers published on their website stolen data, which, as they thought, belonged to the municipality of the Belgian city of Zveindrecht. But in fact, the published information belonged to the Zvendrecht police.
Experts analyzed the merged data and found thousands of license plates of cars, records of fines, files with criminal reports, police reports, investigations reports and much more. Such a leakage of data puts under the blow of not only people, but also current operations of law enforcement agencies.
Belgian media call this leakage of data from one of the largest leaks in the field of state institutions, since hackers published the data stored by the Zvendrecht police from 2006 to September 2022.
The Belgian police immediately responded to local media reports, writing in their social networks that everything is not so bad – the attackers were able to access only the network of the network where the administrative data of the police were stored. Therefore, first of all, law enforcement officials, and not ordinary citizens, will suffer.
According to the chief of the Zvendrecht police, the cause of the data leakage was the human factor: “This incident does not belong to those cases when the hackers managed to steal and drain all data on the network in general. They managed to access only the network where the network was stored Personal information of our employees, for example, staff lists and photos from parties. However, it is true that there was confidential information in the hacked network, which we always tried to post only on the official network. This is just a human mistake. Now we are actively working to contact With everyone who could suffer as a result of an attack. “
And although this incident did not affect the national police network of Belgium, the hacking of the Zvendrecht network can harm thousands of people, since among the merged data were metadata subscribers of telecommunication services and SMS messages of people under a secret police investigation. In addition, in the stolen files there were records from road cameras.
Belgian data protection has not yet announced the beginning of the investigation of this incident, but the prosecutor has opened a criminal case associated with the cyberurincient.