Three Estonian ministries reported cybersecurity incidents in November that resulted in significant breaches of personal data.
The three ministries were the economy ministry, the foreign ministry and the social affairs ministry.
The affected ministries have been working with RIA to analyse the attack vectors of the breach and contain the intrusions.
In the incident concerning the foreign ministry, a database containing information already accessible to the public was copied but no restricted documents or sensitive personal information were retrieved.
"id": "MIN17121122",
"linkid": "ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-estonia",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "12/2020",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"