Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database

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A hacker has breached Romania's cadastre agency and wiped the country's entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt.<br>The hack has brought Romania's entire real-estate market to a standstill as official apps and websites have been offline for a week. Notaries can't record new transactions while citizens can't obtain proof of ownership or detailed land records.<br>Email servers at the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (Agenția Națională de Cadastru și Publicitate Imobiliară, or ANCPI) were also down as part of the incident.<br>Sources told Risky Business that the hacker entered using valid credentials, mapped internal systems, and wiped systems and backups after failing to extort the...