Another certificate authority in The Netherlands has been hacked, though this time the attack does not appear to have affected the certificate-issuing operations of Gemnet, a subsidiary of KPN. The company, which does business with the Dutch government among other organizations, said it has taken its Web site offline while it investigates the attack.
The attack came to light Wednesday, and while the details are limited at this point, the company said that the attackers went after the public Web site and were able to compromise the server and access some private data and documents stored on the back-end database. Gemnet is owned by KPN, a large Dutch telecom and Internet company.
"The hack of the site has no connection with the issuance and management of Government PKI certificates. The general website Gemnet (www.gemnet.nl) since Wednesday December 7 temporarily not accessible to visitors. The website, part of KPN, by Internet journalist Brenno de Winter Wednesday afternoon reported a possible hack. The hack would be performed on the server: the server that the general visitor information visible. KPN was immediately launched an investigation into possible causes and origins," a translation of a
KPN press statement says in part.
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