The CGPJ investigates a cyber attack on the system with which it processes requests for information from the Treasury and the Police

Ensures that "they have not been compromised" data from judicial procedures

MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has investigated the cyberattack that two weeks ago affected the Judicial Neutral Point, a communication system that allows requests for information to be centralized and transferred between the judicial bodies and the Tax Agency, the Police or the National Institute of Social Security.

As reported this Tuesday by the governing body of the judges, the Council itself detected in the second half of October "a cyber attack on the networks of the Spanish Public Administrations in which the Judicial Neutral Point was affected", a network that is managed from the CGPJ.

"From that very moment, cybersecurity measures were adopted to contain and neutralize computer attacks of this type," the body said in its statement.

The CGPJ has specified that the Judicial Neutral Point has been "used by the attackers to access other public institutions" and has underlined that in the attack "data relating to judicial proceedings or other information held by the courts and courts".

From the Council they have explained that, once the cyberattack was detected, the facts were brought to the attention of the Cybersecurity Operations Center of the General Administration of the State and its Public Bodies (COCS), as well as the National Cryptologic Center (CCN-CERT) .

According to the CGPJ, after said notification --and in coordination with both centers-- "the corresponding investigation and mitigating measures have been adopted." Likewise, the Council has assured that it notified the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) and the Directorate for Supervision and Control of Data Protection of the judges' own governing body.