Incidents in country:
4 incidents catalogued
The Lapsus$ extortion group accessed part of Mercado Libre's source code and the data of around 300,000 users, claiming to have reached 24,000 internal repositories of the Latin American e-commerce and fintech giant.
An attacker used a compromised government VPN account to query Argentina's RENAPER national ID database for all 45 million Argentines. Photos and ID details for the president, soccer star Lionel Messi, and other public figures were posted to Twitter as proof. The data went on sale on a dark-web forum.
A hacker accessed Argentina's RENAPER national identity registry through a stolen government VPN credential, obtaining ID-card data and photographs on the country's entire population of roughly 45 million citizens.
Netwalker ransomware encrypted the systems of Argentina's national immigration agency, halting all border crossings for about four hours and prompting a $4 million ransom demand that the government refused to pay.