FIRENZE (ITALPRESS) – A hacker attack struck between the end of January and the beginning of February last the administrative services of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, which forced the direction of the famous museum to close an entire piece of Palazzo Pitti up to date to be destined, transfer the most precious jewels of the Treasury of the Grand Dukes in the vault of the Bank of Italy and to wall security doors and exits with lime and bricks. This is today the Corriere della Sera.
The hacker group who succeeded in violating the computer network of the Florentine museum pole, which includes, in addition to the Galleries, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, would empty the servers. It would have been stolen not only the entire archive of the photographic cabinet, but the malvivents would have managed to enter the systems of the technical office, putting their hands on access codes, passwords, alarm systems, internal maps, entrances, exits and service paths. They would also know the location of surveillance cameras and sensors.
The information so stolen if you use would allow you to move between the museum rooms knowing exactly where to pass and what to disable.
Data that thieves would threaten to sell on the dark web if the Uffizi will not fulfill the request for redemption that would come directly on the personal phone of the director of the museum pole, Simone Verde. There would have been more than one contact, but for weeks silence.
The weak point, in the Uffizi computer system would have been identified in the program that manages the flow of images in low resolution, accessible from the institutional site.
From there, the hackers would go anywhere. Once inside, thieves would move slowly into the network, copying data over time, until the attack between January-February that blocked administrative services. After the complaint of the Uffizi, the Prosecutor of Florence and the Postal Police are working with the support of the National Cybersecurity Agency.
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