Uffizi after hacker attack: 'Neither theft nor damage, thieves have no security maps'

At the Uffizi "no damage was done nor was any theft carried out, there is no evidence whatsoever of the hackers' possession of security maps", moreover "the cameras had been in the process of being replaced for a year" but "the situation was nothing like at the Louvre". The Galleries wrote this in a note regarding the Corriere della Sera report on a cyber attack on the Florentine museum centre's security systems. "No passwords were stolen," they go on to say, "none whatsoever, because the security systems are closed-circuit inside and not open to the outside."

According to the article, the hacker attack took place between late January and early February this year, affecting the administrative services of the Gallerie degli Uffizi and forcing the management "to close an entire piece of Palazzo Pitti until a later date, hastily transferring the most precious jewels of the Grandukes' Treasury to the Bank of Italy vault and walling up doors and emergency exits with lime and bricks", writes the Corriere della Sera. The hacker group, according to the article, managed to breach the computer network of the Florentine museum pole - which includes, in addition to the Galleries, the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens - and allegedly the entire archive of the photographic cabinet was stolen.

The thieves, according to the Uffizi note, were therefore unable to enter the technical office systems, nor to obtain access codes , passwords , alarm systems, internal maps, entrances, exits and service routes.

It is not clear how the other element reported by the Corriere also evolved, i.e. the request for ransom that allegedly arrived directly on the personal telephone of the museum's director, Simone Verde . At work now, after the Uffizi complaint, prosecutors and postal police with the support of the National Cybersecurity Agency .

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