Dubai Municipality (Arabic: بلدية دبي) is the Government of Dubai municipal body with jurisdiction over city services and the upkeep of facilities in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and reports directly to the Dubai Executive Council.[1] The agency is led by a Director-General that sits at the Dubai Executive Council. The department has been led by Director-General Eng. Dawood Abdul Rahman Al Hajiri since 2018. — Wikipedia
Daixin Team added the municipality to its dark web leak site for entities that have not paid their demands. Although they did not leak the contents of files, they provided a detailed list of databases with the number of records and types of information in each database. One of the databases reportedly contains 28,427 records with HR-employee information. The fields for that database are listed as:
PERSON_ID,EMPLOYEE_NUMBER,FULL_NAME_A,FULL_NAME_E,DATE_OF_BIRTH,START_DATE,NATIONALITY,NATIONALITY_ENG,NATIONAL_IDENTIFIER,SEX,MARITAL_STATUS,GRADE,GRADE_ID,JOBDESC,JOBDESC_ENG,POSITION_DESC,ASSIGNMENT_STATUS_TYPE_ID,ASSIGNMENT_STATUS,PEOPLE_GROUP_ID,SUPERVISOR_NAME,NATIONAL_GROUP,NATIONAL_GROUP_ENG,HOUSING_STATUS,HOUSING_STATUS_ENG,EMPLOYEE_OLD_NUMBER,JOB_CLASSIFICATION_CODE,JOB_CLASSIFICATION_NAME,ORGANIZATION_ID,ORGANIZATION,ORGANIZATION_US,SECTION_ID,SECTION,SECTION_US,DEPARTMENT_ID,DEPARTMENT,DEPARTMENT_US,DIVISION_ID,DIVISION,DIVISION_US,GM_OFFICE_ID,GM_OFFICE,GM_OFFICE_US,SUSPENSION_REASON,TERMINATION_DATE,TERMINATION_REASON
In sum, they claim 60-80 GB of scans and pdf files. While they note that the data have not been fully analyzed, most of them contain: ID cards, passport and other PII files lists (33,712 files).
Additional Claims
In correspondence to DataBreaches, a Daixin spokesperson claimed that they encrypted the municipality’s files on May 27.
“Several thousand internal servers have been encrypted,” they claim, adding, “Some of the backups were destroyed. (not 100%).”
Daixin also commented on the municipality’s security:
The system was designed with the primary goal of avoiding information leakage, and expensive software and hardware was used to do so.
It is likely that they are trying to hide the fact of the incident or they were not qualified to realise the extent of the leakage.
The municipality doesn’t respond
Daixin’s spokesperson informed DataBreaches that the municipality has not responded to them:
“They have not yet entered the negotiating chat and do not know how much data may be released and the negative image that will be created for them,” Daixin wrote to DataBreaches, noting the significant amount of confidential information in the databases, and that the stolen data includes scanned copies of documents belonging to UAE nationals and citizens of other countries.
DataBreaches emailed four individuals from the municipality yesterday using two .csv files provided by Daixin Team. One was for corporate executives and one was for inspectors. DataBreaches’ inquiry included detailed information about the claims and databases. Two of the four emails bounced back with the error message “Recipient address rejected: Access denied.” The other two emails did not bounce back, but DataBreaches has not received a reply to the inquiry. DataBreaches has not yet attempted to verify the data in the two csv files.