--- title: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database description: A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency using valid credentials, wiped the entire national land registry database and backups after a failed extortion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hacker-wipes-romania-s-entire-land-registry-database-tdzwvjrkh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database | daily.dev og:description: A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency using valid credentials, wiped the entire national land registry database and backups after a failed extortion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hacker-wipes-romania-s-entire-land-registry-database-tdzwvjrkh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tdZwvJrKh.png og:image:alt: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency using valid credentials, wiped the entire national land registry database and backups after a failed extortion attempt, halting the country's real estate market for over a week. The attacker, identified as Zakaria Mahdjoub from Algeria, also posted stolen data including employee credentials and IT network details on a hacking forum. Other major stories include: Hugging Face breached via an autonomous AI agent; Coca-Cola's Fairlife subsidiary hit by ransomware; a critical unauthenticated RCE (wp2shell) found in WordPress core affecting 41% of all websites; Graykey maker Magnet Forensics suing a former employee for leaking an unpatchable iPhone exploit; two Scattered Spider members sentenced to 5.5 years for the TfL hack; new macOS infostealers (ClickLock, CrashStealer); NadMesh botnet targeting AI infrastructure; and a new OpenSSL DoS vulnerability (HollowByte) exploitable with 11 bytes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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