An extremely strange case involving the interception of personal data from e-mails is being investigated according to evidence that they leaked today in the press, the National Intelligence Service.
According to officials, this is a case of interception of about 15.000 passwords to e-mail accounts (e-mail). It is not clear if the intercepted data caught from a specific website or targeting multiple online services.
All that has been disclosed is that the Greek authorities were informed by a foreign equivalent agency security that Hellenes users have been targeted by hackers and provided the relevant evidence.
At the moment, the EYP aims, first of all, to ascertain who owns the codes that have been intercepted, as well as the exact country from which the person who has committed the specific malicious action comes from. Research, although still in its infancy, shows that the action was carried out by a single person who snatched the passwords.
Of course, we estimate that 15.000 password interception is probably not one of the biggest assumptions made in our country. At a time when hackers often use SQL Injection methods to extract data from websites with 100.000+ users, we understand that the leakage can be considered "small".
Personal data, interception and trafficking have identified the Electronic Crime Prosecution several times with the cases, but still to be found in the Greek Courts and to delay (unjustifiably) the application of the penal provisions & the imposition of penalties!
We believe that the National Intelligence Service and the Prosecution of Electronic Crime should to make public the targeted email addresses or to contact their owners so that targeted users are aware of the possibility of their data being leaked.
