Breaches and incidents
Lomazzo municipality (Italy): technical office email hacked to send 300+ fake speeding-fine demands
La Provincia di Como reports the technical office’s institutional email “had been hacked” and used from 26 to 28 September to send more than 300 fake...
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What happened
- La Provincia di Como reports the technical office’s institutional email “had been hacked” and used from 26 to 28 September to send more than 300 fake speeding-fine reminders demanding 196 euros with a PagoPA form to people across Italy.
- Root cause: not disclosed beyond the account compromise; IT company Halley detected it and blocked the account.
- No attacker named.
- The mayor reported the matter to the Polizia Postale, the account stayed blocked pending checks, residents were warned about phishing, and security councillor Claudio Taormina said “No sensitive data was disclosed.”