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dpa attack: Black Basta offers data on the Darknet
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As already reported, the IT of the German Press Agency (dpa) was hit by a cyber attack. The perpetrators were probably more successful than expected. According to various sources, the Black Basta hacker group offers the captured data on the dark web: payslips and sensitive data from around 1.500 dpa employees. In the first announcements it was only guesswork, now it is a certainty. The Black Basta hack group carried out the cyber attack on the German Press Agency (dpa) and successfully stole data. As the mirror reports, the data is said to be the payslips of the employees with…

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Ransomware attack on German press agency dpa
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As the mirror reports, the German Press Agency (dpa) was probably hit by a hacker attack. The mirror has an internal email in which the employees are informed. Apparently ransomware has struck and encrypted systems. The list of ransomware attacks is growing prominently. Because according to Spiegel, the attack on the German Press Agency – dpa for short – was successful. However, it is not yet entirely clear whether the dpa structure is affected or whether only one service provider was hit. It is not clear whether the attack will affect the production of the dpa, although...

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