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Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database

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This newsletter is brought to you by Thinkst , the makers of the much-loved Thinkst Canary . You can subscribe to an audio version of this newsletter as a podcast by searching for "Risky Business" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed . You can also add the Risky Business newsletter as a Preferred Source to your Google search results by going here . A hacker has breached Romania's cadastre agency and wiped the country's entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought Romania's entire real-estate market to a standstill as official apps and websites have been offline for a week. Notaries can't record new transactions while citizens can't obtain proof of ownership or detailed land records. Email servers at the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising ( Agenția Națională de Cadastru și Publicitate Imobiliară , or ANCPI) were also down as part of the incident.…

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