A cyberattack has affected one of the servers of the Communication Unit at the Santa Perpètua de Mogoda City Council this Wednesday, October 28. The incident primarily impacted files and documents related to the municipal publication l’Informatiu, institutional Communication campaigns, and the photographic archive of the past year.
The Councilor for Communication, Tamar Zamora, lamented the events and assured that there is no type of affectation or unauthorized access to sensitive data. The councilor explained that the City Council is working with the Catalan Cybersecurity Agency to analyze the causes of the incident and implement the necessary actions to restore the service and data.
From the moment the situation became known, the City Council adopted the necessary measures to contain the attack and prevent it from spreading to other servers of the Communication Unit. The attack is of the Ransomware type, a modality that blocks or encrypts access to systems and files.
