Breaches and incidents
Colegio Oficial de Medicos de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain): network disconnected after cyberattack with encryption and theft note
The college’s notice says its infrastructure suffered a cyberattack on Tuesday 13 October.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- The college’s notice says its infrastructure suffered a cyberattack on Tuesday 13 October; a note found on its computers, which “appears to have been generated automatically”, claims organization data was “allegedly encrypted and stolen.”
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- The network was disconnected immediately; the college says its security teams “have not detected” a data leak and there is no confirmed misuse of data; AEPD and INCIBE were informed and law enforcement was to be notified “soon”.