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Estonia Sues Gemalto for 152 Mln Euros Over ID Card Flaws

posted by mrpg on Monday October 01 2018, @10:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the bills-to-pay dept.

Bytram (from IRC) writes:

Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws:

TALLINN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Estonian police are seeking to recover 152 million euros ($178 mln) in a lawsuit filed on Thursday against digital security firm Gemalto, following a recall last year when security flaws were found in citizen ID cards produced by the firm.

The vulnerabilities to hacker attacks found in government- issued ID cards supplied by the Franco-Dutch company marked an embarrassing setback for Estonia, which has billed itself as the world’s most digitalised “e-government”.

Most of its 1.3 million people use electronic ID cards to access public services digitally.

Estonia’s Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) said in a statement Gemalto had created private key codes for individual cards, leaving the government IDs vulnerable to external cyber attack, rather than embedding it on the card’s chip as promised.

Local Ed. checking in, here are some recent stories that contain a few of the twist in the saga (which did begin quite a while back) from the state news service (in English):
https://news.err.ee/864881/gemalto-152-million-ppa-claim-disproportionate
https://news.err.ee/859618/ppa-say-no-to-id-card-compromise-gemalto-still-hope-for-accord-with-state https://news.err.ee/688602/id-card-crisis-cost-information-system-authority-1-million
-- FP

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 01 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday October 01 2018, @10:46AM (#742277) Homepage Journal

    ... have The Mark Of The Beast, as it is required to buy and to sell."

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @05:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @05:50PM (#742375)

    Fuck your Christian superstitious bullshit. OMG my DRIVER'S LICENSE is the MARK OF THE BEAST! I can't buy booze, cigarettes, or weed without it! MArK oF thE BeAST!!!eleven!!!

    Also, I would like to be considered for reincarnation in Estonia. A contractor fucks up at the cyber, somebody in the government understands the cyber enough to catch this, and the government holds them accountable instead of throwing even more pork their way?? Insanity!

    Well... I haven't learned a new language in a while. How hard is it to get a work visa in Estonia?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday October 01 2018, @06:51PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday October 01 2018, @06:51PM (#742411) Homepage
      Marry an Estonian, or any EU citizen. Hell, you don't even have to marry, we have the concept of just being a "family member" here, which requires little more than cohabitation and cosigning most official paperwork. (We do this, my g/f's a yank.)
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