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XPLAIN DATA BREACH ALSO IMPACTED THE NATIONAL SWISS RAILWAY FSS

June 12, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




THE PLAY RANSOMWARE ATTACK SUFFERED BY THE IT SERVICES PROVIDER XPLAIN ALSO
IMPACTED THE NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY OF SWITZERLAND (FSS) AND THE CANTON OF
AARGAU.

The Play ransomware attack suffered by the IT services provider Xplain is worse
than initially estimated, the incident also impacted the national railway
company of Switzerland (FSS) and the canton of Aargau.

In early June, Swiss police launched an investigation into the cyber attack that
hit the Bernese IT company Xplain, which provides its services to several
federal and cantonal government departments, the army, customs, and the Federal
Office of Police (Fedpol).


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The news of the attack was first reported by the Swiss newspaper Le Temps.

“for the first time, several cantonal police forces, the Swiss army or the
Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) are indirectly affected by a
cyberattack.” reads Le Temps. “These major players in security have one thing in
common: they have the same IT service provider, the Bernese company Xplain,
which has just been hacked.”

Threat actors initially published alleged stolen data from the Federal Office of
Police (Fedpol) and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS)
on a Darknet forum.

Local media reported that attackers have exploited a vulnerability on the
servers of the company.

Both Fedpol and the federal customs office confirmed the attack but attempted to
downplay the incident. According to Fedpol, threat actors only had access to
simulated, anonymous data for test purposes.

Xplain notified Fedpol about the attack a few days ago, revealed a Fedpol
spokesman who added that the projects of the agency were not exposed.

The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) said data from the
FOCBS that were exposed are from correspondence with its clients.

The news of the FSS data leak was initially reported by the magazine NZZ am
Sonntag and later confirmed by the Swiss railway company.

The authorities of the canton of Aargau also confirmed the data breach.

“The Aargau authorities said for their part that they assume that “in addition
to company correspondence, a small volume of operational data from error logs
which was at Xplain for analysis was also affected”.” reported the website RSI.

The authorities are still investigating the security breach to determine the
extent of the attack.

This week, the website of the Swiss parliament has been the target of cyber
attack as reported by the president of the House of Representatives, Martin
Candinas.

“The problems appeared on Wednesday afternoon. At the end of the day,
parliament’s services said the attack had been neutralised and that no internal
systems or data had been affected. On Thursday morning, however, there were
still problems accessing the websiteExternal link.” reported the website
SwissInfo.

The attack is not linked to the XPlay ransomware attack.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
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