Car owners, police, fighter pilots, military: Sweden accidentally leaks huge trove of citizen data

‘Millions of Swedes had their personal details exposed after the country’s transport agency outsourced unencrypted data to IBM, which moved it to a cloud server. The leak, which affected every citizen with a driver’s license, was called a “disaster” by Sweden’s PM.
The Swedish government is reeling from a massive scandal, which dates back to a botched decision-making chain that began in 2015, and involves apparently improper handling of sensitive data by officials.
A faulty IT outsourcing agreement with IBM Sweden was to blame for the “extremely serious” leak, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said. However there is no suggestion that IBM was in the wrong.
First, the IBM was given the all-clear to move the vast database of the country’s transport agency to a cloud server abroad, which was meant to save costs. The unencrypted data was fully accessible by system administrators in the Czech Republic, while IT specialists working in Serbia managed firewalls and communications, The Local reports.’
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