Overview
- Roughly 800 gigabytes of data—about 600,000 files taken from an internal work drive—include documents with names and addresses.
- The municipality has reported the breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority and says affected people will be contacted by letter.
- Officials describe the perpetrators as professional criminals who gained access via ClickFix, a social‑engineering phishing method.
- The full scope remains under investigation as the town catalogs which specific records were compromised and for whom, with no timeline yet for notifications.
- Epe says public services are operating safely and voting on Wednesday can proceed securely, while residents are urged to stay alert for fraud attempts.