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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @08:27PM
A country fully subverted simultaneously by US and Russia. Poor pawns.