Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-02-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel Utility)
Affected country: Brazil
Industry: Utilities
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: DarkSide
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Hackers  said they gained access to Copel's CyberArk cloud security solution for privileged access management and exfiltrated plaintext passwords across Copel's local and internet infrastructure, according to the report.