Breaches and incidents
Prefeitura de Lontras (Santa Catarina, Brazil): systems breached, fraudulent transfers from municipal accounts
The city suffered a cyberattack on Friday 18 Sep in which “os criminosos invadiram os sistemas” and made fraudulent transfers from municipal bank accounts.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- The city suffered a cyberattack on Friday 18 Sep in which “os criminosos invadiram os sistemas” and made fraudulent transfers from municipal bank accounts; the total was not stated (RBA TV).
- Root cause: system intrusion; method not disclosed. The city said no evidence of involvement by public servants had been found so far.
- No attacker named.
- Funds were frozen at one receiving bank branch, a police report was filed and the city is working with Caixa Economica Federal to recover the full amount; a later RBA TV headline (30 Oct) on the same page says the city recovered R$ 262,174.32.