Daryna Antoniuk reports:
Hackers are offering for sale what they claim is a large trove of Armenian government-related data, prompting officials in Yerevan to open an investigation into a potential breach.
The alleged seller, using the alias dk0m, said it gained access to a government notification system used to distribute official communications, including legal and administrative notices.
The dataset, advertised on an underground forum for $2,500, is said to contain about 8 million records linked to official notifications, including communications from police and judicial bodies.
In a statement on Saturday, the Public Relations and Information Center of Armenia (PRIC) — a government-linked strategic communications body — denied that the country’s government email infrastructure had been breached, but said attackers may have accessed data from another state platform.
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