Torre Pacheco Town Hall suffers cyber attack which could affect personal info for residents

The attack affected information systems and municipal services., and the Town Hall has urged caution when supplying personal details

Torre Pacheco Town Council has been the victim of a cyber attack aimed at its information systems, which may have affected the personal data of residents of the municipality, which includes La Torre Golf Resort and Mar Menor Golf Resort.

This was a ransomware incident detected on Friday, March 29, the council’s IT Services department and the Local Police verified that the hackers did not have access to servers and subsequently verified that the rest of the information was encrypted.

Once it became aware of the cyberattack, Torre Pacheco Town Council notified the Murcia Regional Government IT Services and the National Cryptological Center (CCN) with the aim of having effective mechanisms that would allow mitigating the action of hackers and reduce possible negative impacts.

The Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Pedro Ángel Roca, reported the cyberattack to the Guardia Civil and immediately established a Crisis Committee that is constantly analyzing the evolution of the situation and its effects on citizens. Representatives of the Municipalities political groups were also informed.

The mayor has indicated that “in the face of these cybercriminals, I ask for institutional and social unity. We will work to recover the normality that we have seen violated. It is common to think that, due to probability, we will not be victims of this type of attacks, but today we have been, in the same way that recently other town councils were, such as Seville or Calvià, in Mallorca”.

A similar attack was suffered by a Spanish airline in March 2024.

The personal data that may have been affected would be related to the management of municipal services, including basic identification data and data associated with the administrative procedures managed by the Town Council, as well as the data of its internal services in relation to its internal management.

The cyber attack focuses on the availability of data, encrypting all the information referred to above and on which work is already being done with the intention of restoring the affected services as soon as possible.

As a precaution, people who communicate with the Town Council, and especially those whose information has been provided through electronic means, are recommended to exercise extreme caution when handling their personal information.

In compliance with the provisions of current regulations on data protection, Torre Pacheco Town Council have announced that steps have been taken to inform citizens in general about issues related to the cyber attack suffered by the town hall and for any additional information, interested parties can contact the Town Council via email to infoaytotp@gmail.com.

Likewise, and with the advice of the Data Protection Delegate of the Town Council, notification has been formalized to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, always ensuring the protection of the privacy and confidentiality of all those people who may have been affected.

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