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recent bookmarks from jmBulgarian tax authority hacked, majority of population's tax details leaked2019-07-19T08:53:57+00:00
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613973/what-happens-when-a-countrys-entire-adult-population-is-hacked/
jmA 20-year-old man was arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday afternoon and charged with an unprecedented hack of the country’s tax authority, ending with the theft of sensitive personal records from nearly every adult in Bulgaria, according to local reports. The suspect, whose name is Kristiyan Boykov, according to Bulgarian media, faces up to eight years in prison. Police say others may have been involved.
The country’s officials have spent the week revealing and apologizing for the pillaging of Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) in June, Reuters reported. Personal and financial data for millions of taxpayers was leaked by email to local journalists. The data leak includes names, addresses, income and earnings information, and personal identification numbers, totaling 21 gigabytes and extending back over a decade.
]]>bulgaria security tax hacks leakshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4dc142a1a38d/How A Spam Newsletter Caused a Bank Run in Bulgaria2014-07-06T22:55:23+00:00
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/fact-week-spam-newsletter-caused-bank-run-bulgaria.html
jmAccording to the Bulgarian National Security Agency (see here, for a reporting in English), an investment company that “built a network of associated companies for marketing services” that was used to diffuse panic by means of an alert, uncomfortably titled “Information Bulletin of on the Risk of Deposits in Bulgarian Banks”. The “bulletin” claimed – Bloomberg reports – KTB was undergoing a liquidity shortage. The message apparently also said that the government deposit guarantee fund was under-capitalised to meet possible repayments, that banks could go bankrupt and that the peg of the currency with the euro could be broken. Allegedly, the alert was diffused by text, email and even Facebook messages, thus ensuring a very widespread outreach. In a country that in 1997 underwent a very serious banking crisis featuring all these characteristics – whose memory is still fresh – this was enough to spur panic.
]]>spam banking bulgaria banks euro panic facebook social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3957d942ad81/Bulgaria: Bulgarian City Struggles as Councilors Play Farmville on Facebook - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency2010-03-26T15:08:05+00:00
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114390
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