The Traffic Research and Analysis Group (GIAT) of the Civil Guard is investigating a possible cyber attack on the driver database of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) after alarms went off that the organization could have been a victim of cybercriminals. The agents have identified several users suspected of having tried to enter the database to gather information, whose access has been cut off, and whose identity has been made known to the GIAT, according to Traffic sources.
The investigation has not yet confirmed that the cybercriminals have obtained the data of the total number of drivers registered in the DGT database and that, as has been advanced The confidentialthey would have illegally put it up for sale in a forum specialized in the sale and purchase of information stolen in computer attacks.
In any case, the driver census is 27 million and not 34 million as had been published, as reported by DGT sources. The sources recognize that cyberattacks are frequent in Traffic, as they occur in other organizations or companies.
“Information constantly arrives at Traffic about improper access, which is immediately cut off and the case is transferred to the GIAT, which investigates everything related to road safety and transportation,” sources from the DGT have stated to Europa Press. .
The aforementioned sources have also specified that a significant number of organizations and institutions, such as city councils, have access to their database and that, “on many occasions”, cybercriminals announce the sale of this information that actually they don’t have. “They are false,” indicate sources from the DGT, who recognize that there are also cases in which they are “true.”
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