Attack on Mexican government systems exposes data of 36 million citizens
Allegations of a data breach targeting the Mexican government emerged in February. In May, analysis found that an attack by the Chronus group had exposed the data of 36 million citizens through legacy and third-party systems.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Mexican government
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Data of 36 million citizens
- Cause / method
- Attack by the Chronus group via legacy and third-party systems
- Location
- Mexico
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Timeline
- Allegations of a data breach targeting the Mexican government emerged.
- Analysis found that the data of 36 million citizens had been exposed in an attack by the Chronus group.
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