The Doors Stayed Open. The Organisation Behind Them Was Running on Emergency IT.
Brandenburg’s seven memorial sites remained open after ransomware disabled central IT. The real resilience story was the emergency operation behind the public doors.
Europe Series
An EU Data Order Can Now Cross Borders Directly. The Provider May Have Eight Hours.
The EU e-Evidence Regulation makes cross-border data orders an eight-hour operational challenge for service providers, not merely a legal process.
France Thought It Had a Staff-Data Breach. The Same Incident May Have Reached Millions of Students.
France’s Education Ministry is testing whether a breach first described as staff-only reached student records across a fragmented national data estate.
A Breach Reached 1.2 Million Latvians. The Records Went Back to 2008.
Attackers stole historical CSDD payment-receipt data affecting 1.2 million people. The breach combined national-scale identity data with vehicle, address, and payment history dating back to 2008.
A Payment Archive From 2008 Exposed Two-Thirds of Latvia.
A cyberattack on Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate exposed payment-receipt records belonging to 1.2 million people and 200,000 legal entities. The archive stretched back to 2008 and linked identity data to addresses, vehicle registration plates, payment dates, and amounts. The…
MyDr May Have Exposed Data on Half of Poland. The Concentration Risk Is the Bigger Story.
MyDr cannot yet confirm the breach scope, while officials cite nearly 19 million people. The platform concentration risk is already clear.
The Cyberattack Was Part of the Strike Package: Ukraine Targeted Wildberries Online and Offline.
Ukraine says cyber disruption amplified strikes on Wildberries warehouses. The effects remain unverified, but the combined-operation model matters.
The Network Was Private. Attackers Used It as a Bridge Into a Power Plant.
A permissive private cellular APN connected a compromised wind farm to a Polish power plant, turning assumed isolation into an attack path.
Germany Is Turning Its Intelligence Services Into Cyber Operators, Not Just Observers.
For much of the post-war era, Germany deliberately kept its intelligence services on a comparatively short leash. That was not accidental. The country’s history made extensive state surveillance politically and legally sensitive, and German intelligence agencies developed under far tighter…
France’s Tax Systems Have Been Breached Again. The Bigger Problem Is What Comes After the Data Theft
France has described three DGFiP data leaks involving tax correspondence, cadastral records and inheritance-related requests. The attack also shows how low-rate extraction can stay below detection thresholds.