Breaches and incidents
Comunidade Intermunicipal da Regiao de Leiria (Portugal): ransomware on intermunicipal email server, data recovered from backups
Per DN/Lusa, executive secretary Paulo Santos said a ransomware attack on the CIM’s email server was identified in the early hours of 15 September.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- Per DN/Lusa, executive secretary Paulo Santos said a ransomware attack on the CIM’s email server was identified in the early hours of 15 September; the server was isolated and all data up to the moment of infection was recovered.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- Santos said the cybersecurity and triple-backup system serving the 10 municipalities “worked fully”, only Porto de Mos remained without email as a precaution, and the incident was reported to the authorities.