This was reported by Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) on Monday in a press conference with the cybercrime expert Cornelius Granig, brought in by the state for help, Harald Brunner, the head of the IT department of the state of Carinthia, and Viola Trettenbrein from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (LVT). . The hacker attack was noticed almost two weeks ago, affecting the IT system of the state administration, the district authorities, the state audit office and the administrative court. The BlackCat hacker group had contacted the state of Carinthia and demanded a ransom of five million dollars in bitcoins. Another ultimatum later followed on the dark web, threatening to publish data. According to the state, paying is probably not an option, Kaiser had emphasized that one could not be blackmailed.
Data leak not confirmed
Reports about leaked data from the Carinthian state servers that appeared on Friday had not yet been confirmed by the state. You have to verify that first, it was always said, it could just have been a list of file names. According to the Viennese IT security entrepreneur Sebastian Bicchi, however, entire files have been published, including ID cards, passports, corona tests and political position papers. The state of Carinthia has now brought cybercrime expert Granig, who heads the cyber security department at the consulting firm Grant Thornton Austria, on board.
Source: Nachrichten
