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How bad will it be? It may take some time before the full extent of the disorder is known. It is already clear that the Xplain hack has undermined any credibility that the federal government can handle its data and ours with care. The dark web circulates information about federal police security measures, security concepts for foreign government visitors, excerpts from a hooligan database. If you have enough processing power, a little patience and criminal energy, you can do all sorts of nasty things with her.
The search for the culprit continues. The Data Protection Officer is investigating the Federal Police, Customs and Border Protection, and since last Friday also Xplain. The main questions that arise are: how can it happen that the real information ends up with the IT service provider instead of unsuspecting fictitious data? And why didn’t those responsible for Xplain delete this data after work?
Meanwhile, IT people in the federal government are competing with data journalists in newspaper offices. No one doubts that further leaks will follow. How destructive they will be remains to be seen. However, the first conclusion can already be drawn: the damage to the Confederation is enormous, new cracks have formed in Heidiland. It is associated with ignorance and arrogance. Thinking that nothing can happen to us. After all, our skulls are as thick as our vault doors. And if a sly neighbor in the garden stands on our side, we plant an opaque hedge.
Since we are not used to being imperfect, we have neglected the security of our IT systems. This is now being avenged in the most brutal way – with a hard blow to the ground of reality: no computer system is perfect. If you work with sensitive data, you should assume the worst. The war against criminal hackers is unlikely to be won. But the goal should be to keep them outside the city walls.
Three years ago, 75% of Swiss people thought electronic patient records were good. This spring it was 57 percent. It’s hard to imagine how many there are today. He has yet to prove that the state controls e-voting, the Swiss identity card and organ donation registries.
Numerous tricky tasks await the new Federal Cybersecurity Administration. The hardest part will be restoring public trust.
Source: Blick
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