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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

Sweden might just be experiencing an outsourcing nightmare on a national level. The Swedish transport agency outsourced the entire drivers license database to IBM which in turn placed it in the Czech republic. Maintained by people without security clearance. With it also came access to various police databases and access to SGSI, the secure and encrypted government network. Access to SGSI could also have acted as a backdoor into the STESTA network which is the European and EU equivalent.

Part of the drivers license database and related system are also databases that contain information about active military personnel, vehicles owned and operated by the armed forces and people with a protected identity. For normal people, beyond all the usual information a drivers license give such as the personal id number - that could be a used for identity theft, it might also contain medical information that have to be filed for when you obtain a drivers license.

The former head of the agency was fired in January '17 after being under investigation from SÄPO (secret service) and fined 70000 SEK (about $8500) for her part in the wrongdoing, so someone got a slap on the wrist as this was about half a months salary for her.

Turns out now everyone in power and government might have known about for about two years give or take a couple of months and had not done anything about it.

Heads are about to roll, wouldn't want to be in scapegoat range as someone is about to have to fall on the sword to save their incompetent political bosses arses.

https://www.thelocal.se/20170721/it-workers-in-other-countries-had-access-to-secret-records-report [thelocal.se]
https://www.thelocal.se/20170717/swedish-authority-handed-over-keys-to-the-kingdom-in-it-security-slip-up [thelocal.se]

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