Cyberattack: the account of a Santa Fe commune was hacked and $20 million was stolen
The commune of the town San Agustinlocated 25 kilometers from the city of Santa Fe, suffered the theft of 20 million pesos due to a cyber attack through which They hacked the central account and emptied it.
The maneuver was noticed this Monday, when activities in the commune were resumed and the missing item was discovered. The authorities filed the corresponding police report and warned that the theft was carried out through four different transfers of $4.9 million each. This is a total of $19,600,000 that was destined to pay suppliers and salaries.
“On Monday when we came to the commune and We look at the income and expenditure movements to face the week, we find the upper account of the commune empty“commented the communal president Cristian Osta in radio statements.
Osta detailed: “The commune has six accountsthere is a bigger one where all the money is and the others in different divisions“We couldn’t access those because when I detected this automatically, I waited for someone from the bank to help me and we blocked everything.”
Asked if he had information or suspected who could be behind this maneuver, Osta specified: “The transfers were made to Banco Galicia, we have the account numbers and the names of the people“.
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The communal chief also highlighted that the theft was carried out externally: “We did not touch any link so that it could be done, Everything was external, no notification from Banco Santa Fe came to me or the treasurer.“he assured.
On the other hand, he commented in dialogue with LT9 that of the hacked amount “Almost $11 million correspond to salaries that we have to pay next week and the payment of suppliers that we were going to do it this Tuesday.”
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