Traci Folse
This latest data breach in Sweden was one of the worst government data breaches to happen because of an oversight and poor handling after the fact.
We’ve seen some pretty incredible data breaches in the past couple years, but the latest data breach in Sweden actually jeopardized the vast majority of its citizens. A country-wide data security breach online is new. Up to this point, we’d only seen data breaches for specific political parties, or the data of individual politicians. Sweden managed to reveal state secrets, hidden police forces, sensitive military information, and private citizens’ faces, addresses, and vehicle registration all at the same time. It’s impressive in the worst way possible. To make matters worse, poor handling has made the situation even harder to contain.
I am a security researcher with 8+ years of experience in data Security or anti-malware. My job is about focusing on penetration testing and bug hunting. I a...
