Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens

[frogboy]

Another day, Another data breach!

This time sensitive and personal data of millions of transporters in Sweden, along with the nation's military secrets, have been exposed, putting every individual's as well as national security at risk.

Who exposed the sensitive data? The Swedish government itself.

Swedish media is reporting of a massive data breach in the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) after the agency mishandled an outsourcing deal with IBM, which led to the leak of the private data about every vehicle in the country, including those used by both police and military.


The data breach exposed the names, photos and home addresses of millions of Swedish citizen, including fighter pilots of Swedish air force, members of the military's most secretive units, police suspects, people under the witness relocation programme, the weight capacity of all roads and bridges, and much more.

Full Article. Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens

 

[Sven]

The data breach exposed the names, photos and home addresses of millions of Swedish citizen... AS WELL AS :

• The weight capacity of all roads as well as bridges (which is crucial for warfare, and gives a lot idea about what roads are intended to be used as wartime airfields).
• Names, photos, and home addresses of fighter pilots in the Air Force.
• Names, photos, and home addresses of everybody in a police register, which are believed to be classified.
• Names, photos, and residential addresses of all operators in the military's most secret units that are equivalent to the SAS or SEAL teams.
• Names, photos, and addresses of everybody in a witness relocation program, who has been given protected identity for some reasons.
• Type, model, weight, and any defects in all government and military vehicles, including their operator, which reveals a much about the structure of military support units.

Man, this leak is HUGE. I'd be quite furious if I'd be their citizen.

What's the worrying part? The leaked database may not be secured until the fall, said the agency's new director-general Jonas Bjelfvenstam. The investigation into the scope of the leak is still ongoing.

That is the worst part of this news. Hope all those infos does not "accidentally" gets into some evil's hands.. Feeling sorry for all dear Swedish friends.. Hope they recover ASAP.

 

[Transhumana]

Ouch, that is a massive data breach.
And the worst thing is that, according to some Swedish media like Dagens Nyheter, Transportstyrelsen didn't do much to improve their IT-security to prevent new data breaches that might happen in future.

 

[ispx]

i think every time that they say it is a breach it is actually a cover up for them getting hacked.

it is less embarrassing to admit it is a leak & way more humiliating to accept that they got hacked. just my two cents.

 

[Viking]

Some heads are going to roll for this.

 

[Weebarra]

Wow, and their own government was responsible !!!