A government agency filters the data of all Swedish citizens

Data breaches have become too common. Unfortunately, because the risk to security and privacy is high. Today's protagonists arrive from Sweden. A government agency in the Scandinavian country is in the eye of the hurricane after the leak of the data of all the country's citizens.

A government agency filters the data of all Swedish citizens

The agency in question made a decision a while ago to outsource its IT service. As a result of this decision, this problem has arisen, which has ended with leaked data. The process of outsourcing these functions, which IBM took over, put the data of Swedish citizens at risk.

Filtered data

This ruling allowed workers in the Czech Republic without the necessary authorizations to access the Transport Agency database, which has information on all vehicles in Sweden. Among these data there is also information on military and police vehicles. And also protected identities and police records. To armored transport routes.

The Swedish Prime Minister calls this incident unacceptable. Although he also wanted to indicate that everything points to the fact that the data has not been passed to third parties or has been used improperly or fraudulently. So there is no need to panic.

It is a very serious and surprising problem. More considering that it has happened in Sweden, a country that is not usually the protagonist of this type of scandal. The opposition is considering a motion of censure, so it seems that this problem is still going to give a lot to talk about.