A hacker has stolen data from a Bulgarian government system, likely the National Revenue Agency (NRA), and sent it to local media. The hacker stole personal information of 5 million people, nearly every adult in Bulgaria, population 7 million people. The hacker bragged about stealing 110 databases from NRA’s servers, totaling nearly 21 GB. The hacker only shared 57 databases, comprising 11 GB of data, with local news outlets, but promised to release the rest in the coming days. Most of the data is very old, in some cases, information is dated back as far as 2007.
A Bulgarian CyberSecurity expert named Kristian Boykov was later arrested in connection with the data breach, and then released after his charges were downgraded.
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