Breaches and incidents
Depozitarul Central (Romania): central securities depository reports cyberattack on investor online services app
Depozitarul Central’s press release says it was the target of a cyberattack on the “Servicii Online pentru Investitori” application, an auxiliary app that...
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What happened
- Depozitarul Central’s press release says it was the target of a cyberattack on the “Servicii Online pentru Investitori” application, an auxiliary app that creates user accounts for Romanian individual investors, identified on the day it happened.
- Root cause: not disclosed; the release does not state what data, if any, was accessed.
- No attacker named.
- The depository says settlement and registry functions ran normally and holdings of financial instruments and settled-transaction information were not accessed, modified or altered; it informed the competent authorities and intensified monitoring, with services available via post and counter.