Bananas fell into the net. Hacking attack on NIK, not reported to services

The head of the Office of Supreme Audit announced the alleged hacking attack on the Office of Supreme Audit, but despite commitment, he did not inform the devices – the Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation after informing the Homeland Security Agency – writes Rzeczpospolita Thursday.

The newspaper reports that Marian Panay and his associates reported the “massive attack on mobile devices” on February 7 at a private conference. “They indicated that NIK infected 535 devices (from March 2020 to January this year), including phones, laptops and servers. There were supposed to be 7.3 thousand attacks. President Panay announced the +hacker attacks in the media, But he did not inform their services, as required by law.There are consequences for this, we read in the Rzeczpospolita.

“In accordance with the National Cyber ​​Security Regime Act, the SAI is obligated to notify the CSiRT GOV team of identified security incidents in the ICT domain no later than 24 hours after such an incident was identified,” says spokesperson for Coordinating Minister for Special Services Stanislaw Sarin. , citing Rzeczpospolita.

He adds that due to the fact that the Supreme Audit Office “failed to fulfill its obligations and did not provide an appropriate notification to the CSiRT GOV, the head of the Internal Security Service sent a notification to the prosecutor’s office about the possibility of committing a crime.”

As reported by Rzeczpospolita, referring to the spokesperson for the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, the case is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office, which on February 24 launched an investigation into two acts: non-fulfillment of obligations and Article 269, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code. The code, which relates to the disruption or prevention of the transmission of information technology data with particular importance to the work of a government institution, in this case the Board of Supreme Audit. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, attorney Marcin Sado, noted that “the procedures are based on confidential materials.” (PAP)

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