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Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud”

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the are-you-kidding-me? dept.

Rich26189 writes:

Sweden's Transport Agency moved all of its data to "the cloud", apparently unaware that there is no cloud, only somebody else's computer. In doing so, it exposed and leaked every conceivable top secret database: fighter pilots, SEAL team operators, police suspects, people under witness relocation. Names, photos, and home addresses: the list is just getting started. The responsible director has been found guilty in criminal court of the whole affair, and sentenced to the harshest sentence ever seen in Swedish government: she was docked half a month's paycheck.

Story here:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/swedish-transport-agency-worst-known-governmental-leak-ever-is-slowly-coming-to-light/

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Wednesday August 30 2017, @03:51PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @03:51PM (#561539)

    Aye.

    'the cloud' == 'somebody else’s servers, over which you have no control'

    It's worth looking up what happens to information held on servers owned by a company that goes into bankruptcy. As far as I know there is some legal protection for consumers personal information (especially medial records), but for corporate information?

    Healthcare Privacy and Bankruptcy - http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2007/01/healthcare_priv.html [creditslips.org]

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