Romania races to restore land registry after cyberattack disrupts property market
Romania's land registry — vital to its property market — is recovering from what officials call their worst-ever cyber incident, demonstrating how attacks on EU government digital registries can halt economic activity.
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Romania's land registry agency is still recovering from a cyberattack it called "the most serious technical incident in the institution's history."
Editorial Analysis
When an EU member state's core government registry goes offline, it validates NIS2's premise that essential public-sector services need the same resilience standards as private critical infrastructure.
Identify which national registries your business depends on and test whether your processes can tolerate multi-day unavailability.
A cyberattack on Romania's land registry froze the country's property market, underscoring systemic risk from government digital-infrastructure outages within the EU.
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