more than seven hundred pages of confidential police files about terrorism for a long time for everyone been accessible via the internet. In the documents of Europol in 54 European terrorism investigations called. Tv-research program Zembla has found the documents on a backup drive from Iomega that unsecured with the internet was connected. Salient detail: KRO-research Reporter revealed in 2012 that a similar datalek.
Europol is a cooperation between the police forces of the European Union and has its headquarters in The Hague. The files are by an employee of the National Police, which until the beginning of this year at Europol worked, contrary to the rules from the head office brought to the house. Then she made a backup of the documents on a private network drive of Iomega, a hard disk without password to the internet was connected.
The European politiewaakhond has the error admitted and speaks of a 'very serious incident'. 'This goes to the confidentiality and that is also the reason that we immediately started an investigation set up to look how this could happen, ” says Will van Gemert, deputy director of Europol in the tv broadcast of Zembla, which is broadcasted this evening.
Terrorism
The documents, which are provided with multiple geheimhoudingskenmerken, contain analyses of terrorist groups and hundreds of names and phone numbers of people with terrorism in connection to be brought. It mainly concerns documents from the period 2006 to 2008, including analyses of the hofstad group, the bombings in Madrid and foiled attacks on airplanes with liquid explosives. But there are also numerous terrorism investigations that never in the public eye have come, according to Zembla.
Europol has as a result of this leak survey was done in eight European member states to the possible consequences. The opsporingsorganisatie states that the datalek no impact to ongoing terrorism investigations, but can not exclude that, in addition to Zembla, also others access to the network drive. Not terrorism investigations in danger, will the research program the pieces are not integral to make public and no names of suspects.
Lenovo, co-owner of the brand Iomega (Dell EMC is the other), says in a comment that the securing of the network drives to a responsibility of users. The Iomega network drives are between 2009 and 2015 produced. Only in the last year that the devices were made, was the setting of a password is required.
KRO Reporter
Europol learn apparently not mistakes: in 2012 revealed KRO-television Reporter already have a leak at the service. It showed that ict from service provider Orange Business Services accidentally several confidential documents of the European police office (Europol) via the internet had leaked. He had the information on a network-attached storage (nas)-drive – yes – Iomega saved that he privately used. In the broadcast showed the KRO see that on Iomega disks by default the password is disabled and if this is not turned on, a drive over the internet could be accessed.
A spokeswoman for Europol confirms that the two different data breaches. The European police organization, the last time they invested in ict security and the fight against cybercrime, including through the recruitment of McAfee and still acts as an ict-partners at this level.
Zembla
The broadcast of Zembla is Wednesday 30 november 2016, at 21.15 hours at the VARA show on NPO 2.
This article comes from Computable.nl (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/5890388). © Jaarbeurs IT Media.
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