DANIEL SOMOLINOS Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-16:40

The Madrid Regional Transport Consortium has confessed that in November last year

it was the victim of a cyber attack

"of external, intentional and malicious origin" in which the databases containing information on Transport Card holders have been compromised. Public.

From this entity they point out that "

the exact content of the possible extraction has not been evident

", although they assure that "there is evidence", and the attackers may have obtained personal data such as

name, surname, address

, email, telephone, location and code. postcard, among others.

The Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, Jorge Rodrigo, spoke on the matter this Monday, ensuring that "all necessary measures have been taken

to inform the affected people of what happened

."

And he added: "To this day we do not have any relevant facts about those data that could have been leaked."

The attack took place in the early morning of November 22, 2023, and was neutralized that same day.

The agency has indicated that "immediately" the necessary measures were established to block said attack and it proceeded to design and implement "additional security, technical and organizational measures."

At the same time,

the facts were reported to the National Police Corps

and the security breach was reported to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, in strict compliance with the regulations.

The risk of data leakage is already known to everyone, and can range from

simple unwanted communications

or

spam

to

phishing

attempts (criminals who pretend to be a legitimate person or entity in order to deceive the victim and extract everything from passwords to data). banking).

In some cases,

it can also lead to identity theft

.

"The Consortium never requests information about access codes, including

bank account assumptions or credit or debit card pins

," the entity has highlighted, regretting the inconvenience or concern that this announcement may have generated.

This same February, the regional government reported that a total of 57,000 cybercrimes

were recorded in the Community of Madrid

between January and September 2023, which was 19% more than the same period of the previous year.