China News Service, July 25. According to a report on the 24th by the Greek "China Greek Times", recently, the deputy mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece, George Avarris, who is in charge of e-government and immigration policy, said that Thessaloniki The municipal government system was attacked by hackers.
However, because the municipal authority backed up the system data, local officials stated that there was no possibility that the files in the municipal government system would be damaged.
According to reports, when the staff opened the file damaged by the hacker, an English message popped up with the words: "Thessaloniki, you have pressed it."
There is also a hyperlink in the message.
Shown in the hyperlink is the amount requested by the hacker.
Avalli also emphasized that no one in the city government clicked on the hyperlink to check the ransom amount.
The local cybercrime procuratorate also ordered the city government not to proceed further.
Alvarez also denied the so-called ransom of up to 20 million euros.
In addition, on the evening of July 22, the municipality of Thessaloniki backed up the system data.
Alvarez stated that there is no possibility that the files in the municipal government system will be damaged.
At present, Alvaris has filed a lawsuit against these hackers and communicated with the Ministry of Digital Government on the matter.
At the same time, the executives of SpaceHellas, which cooperates with the city government, are working hard to solve this problem.
The special team of the Cybercrime Procuratorate has conducted a preliminary investigation to determine the identity of the hacker.
(Zhu Tianhao)