Bulgaria ’s Finance Minister Ivan Goranov apologised on Tuesday after servers at the country 's tax agency were hacked at the end of June . In the first known major data breach in the country 's history , millions of taxpayers ’ financial information were thought to have been stolen , including income , social security and health care data . Atanas Chobanov, a journalist for local anti-graft website Someone claiming to be a Russian hacker offered access to the compromised servers and described the government as corrupt in an email to Bulgarian local media on Thursday . Bulgaria will now seek help from the EU cybersecurity agency to better protect its financial data .
Bulgaria ’s Finance Minister Ivan Goranov apologised on Tuesday after servers at the country 's tax agency were hacked at the end of June . In the first known major data breach in the country 's history , millions of taxpayers ’ financial information were thought to have been stolen , including income , social security and health care data . Someone claiming to be a Russian hacker offered access to the compromised servers and described the government as corrupt in an email to Bulgarian local media on Thursday . Bulgaria will now seek help from the EU cybersecurity agency to better protect its financial data .