The National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) suffered a massive data theft this Tuesday, which reached almost 6 million driver’s licenses throughout the country. The stolen information was put up for sale on the Internet by hackers, They also blamed President Javier Milei for the incident.
The data package stolen and then sold online It has a price of 3,000 dollarsso it is suspected that the hacking It is more a political message than a traditional theft with an economic motivation.
Another point that supports the political message hypothesis is the choice of the three driver’s licenses that accompanied a writing by the authorsin which the records ofPresident Javier Milei, Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich and Minister of Defense Luis Petri.
The hacker group, in the document, blamed the data theft to the president himself and assured that “he is not interested in having a cyber security plan like in other countries in the world.”
The information about this data leak at the Road Safety Agency was released today afternoon by the British firm BCA LTD, which specializes in the analysis of cyber threats.
Data theft from driver’s licenses: they shared the records of celebrities
The hackers also released the front and back photo of the driver’s licenses of some celebrities, such as Marcelo Tinelli, Guillermo Francella, Tini Stoessel and Peter Lanzini, among others.
It is worth remembering that in Argentina the only usefulness of the driving license is precisely to certify that citizens are fit to drive a vehicle and cannot do other things. Something that does happen in other countries where the registration has almost the same legality as the DNI for various procedures.
Source: Argentine News
Theft of data from driver’s licenses: what the Road Safety Agency said
In a statement, the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) confirmed that the hackers accessed «a limited flow of information that is used for the preparation of Digital Licenses«.
“Fortunately, this fact was alerted at the time by the computer security team and that made it possible to take the necessary precautions to stop access to that information and block future hacks,” it was added.
The organization clarified that the data obtained are those that are shared “with a few organizations that require information from the National Driver’s License to form the digital license.”
He also mentioned that “Neither the databases nor the sensitive information of citizens are compromised.and that the computer security and legal teams are working on the matter”, jointly with the National Cybersecurity Directorate and the Incident Response Service Center (Cert.Ar) taking the relevant actions.