Bulgaria's ANAF was hacked by hackers this week, and according to the information provided by the authorities, the financial and identification data of several million customers were stolen. It seems that the ANAF website in Bulgaria was hacked through a vulnerability that existed in the system that allowed submission of applications for the reimbursement of taxes paid in advance by the city.
The Bulgarian representatives of ANAF say that they analyzed 30% of the data published by the hackers in connection with this hack, and it seems that they are exactly the ones they have in the databases that are no longer so secure. The Minister of Finance from Bulgaria stated that only 3% of the information from the ANAF database was stolen, but in reality it is about at least 1.1 million citizens who are affected.
Bulgaria's ANAF was BROKEN! The data of MILLIONS of Citizens STOLEN!
The authorities say that the information that was stolen by is not part of the category of what is considered to be a state secret, but they were never going to become public, they had to be kept secret by the state. So far, the method by which this hack was possible has not been publicly revealed, and the ANAF representatives have not provided any clear information about how the attack on the website was carried out.
The Russian hackers who made it all claim that they have information from at least 100 databases of the Ministry of Finance in Bulgaria, and that they are willing to give it to journalists to analyze and discover important information. This is the most important hack of 2019 in this region of Europe, and it will certainly have serious repercussions on the plans of countries in the regions to better secure their online infrastructure.
