Cybersecurity incident — 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

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.