Cyberattack Cripples Romania's Land Registry, Freezing Property Market Before VAT Deadline
ANCPI said it cannot estimate restoration time as buyers race to close deals before the 9% value-added tax rate expires.
- On July 14, a cyberattack crippled the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration in Romania, halting property transactions nationwide and freezing digital land registry services.
- Hacker ByteToBreach claimed responsibility for the intrusion, which Israeli cybersecurity firm KELA described as sophisticated, while Dan Câmpean, head of the National Cyber Security Directorate , stated the attack exploited known vulnerabilities that authorities had recently warned organisations to patch.
- The outage threatens buyers rushing to finalise transactions before pre-sale agreements signed under the reduced 9% VAT regime expire at the end of July, while researchers report the attacker deleted the land registry database after a failed extortion attempt.
- ANCPI is currently migrating systems to the Government Cloud, a process expected to finish on Wednesday, though officials cannot yet estimate when normal operations will fully resume as they prioritise isolating affected infrastructure.
- Once migration concludes, authorised institutions will verify system integrity and determine further measures needed before services are gradually restored, an outcome that underscores the urgency of patching known vulnerabilities the National Cyber Security Directorate has repeatedly emphasised.
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The cyber attack on the National Cadastre Agency has blocked thousands of real estate transactions, and people who want to buy or sell homes cannot complete their deeds. Banks and notaries cannot access the necessary documents, and numerous contracts have been postponed. Dan Black has drawn attention to the risks that arise when property documents exist only in electronic format, according to the PLUS Reality.
Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said on Thursday, in a press conference, about the blockade of the National Agency for Housing and Real Estate Advertising (ANCPI), that the transfer in the governmental cloud of the application running the database is in the final phase, and tomorrow will be carried out an evaluation of the security of the application. The estimate is that next week the activity of the agency will resume and it will be possib…
Digital Land Register Deleted: This Is How Easy a Hacker Puts Romania's Real Estate Market Paralyzed
A hacker brought Romania's real estate market to a halt – with an attack that, according to the ANCPI director, was "not particularly complex".
A criminal hacker has gained access to the land register database in Romania and has deleted their entire data. At first, he had started a blackmail attempt.
A previously unknown hacker may have deleted the entire land register database of Romania. With far-reaching consequences: He paralyzed all real estate transactions and prevented notaries from certifying sales or entering mortgages. For citizens, the situation is particularly problematic because from the end of the month a tax increase in house purchases should take place.
A hacker attack seems to bring the Romanian real estate market to a halt. For real estate buyers, the time is particularly critical,
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