Bulgaria’s Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov apologised on Tuesday after servers at the country's tax agency were hacked at the end of June. Bivol called the hack “a bomb that is dangerous” to many different types of people. The hackers stole personal information from more than 100,000 people and then used it to create fake bank accounts for them. Someone claiming to be a Russian hacker offered access to the compromised data and described the government as corrupt in an email to Bulgarian local media on Monday. Bulgaria will now seek help from the EU cybersecurity agency to better protect its financial systems.
Bulgaria’s Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov apologised on Tuesday after servers at the country's tax agency were hacked at the end of June. The hackers stole personal information from more than 100,000 people and then used it to create fake bank accounts for them. Someone claiming to be a Russian hacker offered access to the compromised data and described the government as corrupt in an email to Bulgarian local media on Monday. Bulgaria will now seek help from the EU cybersecurity agency to better protect its financial systems.