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Another government database has been breached.
Attackers stole data relating to around 31,000 companies, foundations and trusts from Liechtenstein’s beneficial ownership register.
The register was created in 2021 to meet EU anti-money-laundering requirements. It is now offline, and the government has activated a crisis unit.
A database built to fight money laundering became a high value honeypot.
These registers concentrate sensitive information about the people behind legal entities in one place.
When that central system is breached, the consequences fall on people who had no choice about submitting their data.
Centralising sensitive information does not remove risk. It concentrates it.
Link:
https://www.regierung.li/medienportal-medium/16444/234654/medienmitteilung 
Published at
2026-08-05 05:45:18 UTCEvent JSON
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