Just a few days ago we told you about a cyber attack suffered by the Spanish Tax Agency, although it seems that it has not ended there. Now the victim is another important body, the CNMC or National Markets and Competition Commission.
It must be taken into consideration that malicious actors are on the lookout at all times to steal data from both end users and companies and organizations. This is something that on certain occasions, as in the case at hand, became something really dangerous.
We tell you all this because the National Court is currently investigating an attack suffered by the aforementioned National Markets and Competition Commission, also known as CNMC. Surely most of you have heard about this very important commission on more than one occasion. Well, apparently during the cyberattack that we told you about. Malicious actors managed to extract around 2 billion sensitive data records.
Say that this information makes direct reference to mobile phone holders and users. This is an order that has been dated December 5 of this year and is already classified as a crime of computer attack that also threatens national security. To give us a closer idea of ​​what happened, the attack occurred through access to the organization’s computer services.
This is how the attackers managed to get hold of the personal data of mobile phone line holders. We are talking about 2,000 million records that add up to around 240 gigabytes of data that the CNMC stored.
They steal 2,000 million mobile user data from the CNMC
Without a doubt, here we are faced with another important cyberattack that affects a huge number of users in this country. Once the National Markets and Competition Commission has been considered a high body of the nation, the head of the central investigative court number 3, MarÃa Tardón, will get to work on the investigation.
Despite all this, at the moment it is unknown what the real purpose of the theft of all this data extracted from the CNMC servers is. In fact, the investigators of the case at the moment assure that it is too early for this, so we will have to wait a while to know the real destination of all that enormous amount of information. Initially, the investigation began in the 27th Investigative Court of Madrid for an alleged crime of computer damage.
At this moment we will tell you that the computer attack on the CNMC that we told you about, the date of which is not detailed in the order, indicates that it is an extraction of massive confidential information. From there we have nothing left but to wait to see how events unfold and if the investigation that has already been launched sheds more light on this attack and theft of 2,000 million telephone records from the National Markets Commission. and the Competition.
