DIGITAL LIFE

Digital criminal put the data of all citizens of Austria up for sale

A 25-year-old hacker stole and put up for sale the personal data of every resident of Austria. The database contains 9 million data sets for an Austrian population of 9.1 million. The police noted that, most likely, this data has already fallen into the hands of criminals.

The Alpine National Police announced the arrest of a 25-year-old hacker from the Netherlands, who stole the personal data of Austrians, writes Reuters. The authenticity of these data was confirmed by law enforcement agencies.

The database contains 9 million unique sets of data about Austrian citizens. Considering that the country's population is 9.1 million people, then the attacker had information about almost all Austrian citizens - their names, dates of birth, gender, address of residence.

The hacker was arrested back in November 2022, but the police announced the arrest only now, so as not to harm the investigation. Law enforcement agencies suggested that the data that got to the hacker was already at the disposal of the criminals.

The attacker also put up for sale similar datasets of Italian, Dutch and Colombian citizens, Austrian police said, adding that they had no further details.

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