The investigation into the Carinthian hacker attack is in full swing. And bring a first surprising result: the perpetrators – or helpers – may not be abroad, but much closer to the Carinthian state government than was once thought. More and more of the stolen data is now surfacing and causing a stir.
Russian hackers, international cyber-terrorists: so far there have been only rumors about the BlackCat blackmailers who paralyzed the servers of the state of Carinthia in May and stole 250 gigabytes of data.
But now Markus Kitz of the Klagenfurt prosecutor’s office confirms that “the first digital tracks are being followed”. And they should not lead abroad and get bogged down in the Darknet, as has been feared, but should also provide clues to domestic machinations. So are the perpetrators closer to the Carinthian state government than previously thought? Reef: “No comment.”
Publication of the data not subject to criminal prosecution
The fact is that some of the stolen data has already been published and is in circulation. That starts with SPÖ governor Peter Kaiser’s passport and leads to embarrassing internals and hypodocuments, the explosive power of which is still unclear.
Is it legal to knowingly use stolen data and exploit the content for sensationalism or entertainment? “We probably can’t do anything about it criminally,” Kitz admits. The legislature is still lagging behind the hackers.
Source: Krone
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