Immigration system locked down in cyber attack

[EL_TIGRE_de_Tigre]

Sounds incredible but the immigration system was down for four hours no one could enter or leave the country...!

And I am almost certain no one did.

 

[jblaze5779]

I feel good knowing all my immigration info will be on the dark web after argentina fails to pay the ransom.

 

[Rich One]

From Clarin

"Netwalker": el grupo de ciberdelincuentes que extorsiona a Migraciones ya hizo al menos 25 millones de dólares en 2020

En junio le pidieron 3 millones de dólares a la Universidad de San Francisco. Cómo operan.

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Attack on Migrations: they would ask for 76 million dollars
Ezeiza International Airport today. Photo: AA 2000


The incident in Argentina, revealed this Friday exclusively by Clarín, was detected by Migrations and reported on Thursday of last week. The alarm went off when at 7 in the morning on August 27, when the Migration Systems area received numerous calls from various checkpoints requesting technical support.

Processing of documents may take a while..! Any hackers in the Forum that can solve the problem...

 

[dilmah]

Sounds incredible but the immigration system was down for four hours no one could enter or leave the country...!

that's their business as usual since March 2020

 

[dilmah]

there was a similar incident with Garmin Connect just a few weeks back

 

[sts7049]

i've already been waiting over a year for my DNI renewal. i guess i'll wait another year.

 

[jblaze5779]

Shitty thing is that I don't think you can travel out of the country on an autorenew precaria... Someone told me that but it doesn't make sense since I was able to enter on a precaria that was autorenewing.

 

[FrankPintor]

Migraciones claim to be back "in business": https://www.perfil.com/noticias/soc...aque-renuncio-el-titular-de-informatica.phtml

There was an attack on Banco Estado in Chile last week, all branches closed today: https://www.fayerwayer.com/2020/09/banco-estado-hackeo-ransomware/

 

[MilHojas]

Argentina Government Refuses to Pay $4M Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers Who Paralyzed Its Borders

The government of Argentina has reportedly refused to pay a $4 million bitcoin ransom demanded by hackers who hijacked the country's immigration systems, The government of Argentina has reportedly refused to pay a $4 million bitcoin ransom demanded by hackers who hijacked the country's...

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[jblaze5779]

Wonder if they'll accept some empandas and ice cream?