Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach
Here&#x27;s a summary of what foreign powers got access to:<p>- identities of undercover operatives
- personal identity data of everyone with a driver&#x27;s licence
- people with protected identities
- location of all army vehicles
- money transport vehicles
- classified infrastructure information<p>Even worse: when they realized they&#x27;d leaked photos, home addresses and SSNs of protected identities, they sent a clear text email asking the contractor to clear them from the database manually.<p>&lt;emotional rant&gt;
My country is a joke.<p>SÄPO knew about this in 2015, and recommended against it, but the Transport Agency still went through with the deal. How they could even be allowed to do that is beyond me.<p>The director general of the Transport Agency, and the person ultimately responsible for the leak, was fined a mere $8500 (which is half of what she allegedly would earn in a _month_) for leaking highly classified information to foreign powers - an act that would be punished as high treason in any sane country. Either she knew exactly what she was doing, meaning the Russians paid a meagre $8500 for full access to a database containing top secret information, or (more likely) she was just that stupid, meaning possibly hostile powers got this information for free.<p>But hey, that&#x27;s Sweden, where incompetent people become director generals of big government agencies, and any screw up they get caught with is excused by saying that you didn&#x27;t know better.<p>Here, Swedes believe that Trump is such a catastrophe, and wonder why Americans could vote for him. We should instead look at our own pathetic &quot;feminist&quot; government, and ask ourselves how and why we got here.<p>But hey, luckily for everyone we don&#x27;t have nukes. We&#x27;d probably accidentally give the launch codes to Saudi Arabia&#x2F;Palestine, and respond by giving the person responsible for the leak a small fine while the rest of the world burned in the war that erupted after Israel got nuked.
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