Cyber-Whistleblower Stuns Latvia With Tax Document Heist
An AP newswire article by Gary Peach, via The Washington Post, reports:
Latvian officials struggled Wednesday to come to grips with an enigmatic group that stole millions of classified tax documents from government computers in a purported effort to expose waste and graft in Europe's weakest economy.More here.
The massive data theft from the tax authority's computer system has raised concerns about cybersecurity in the Baltic country.
It has also embarrassed politicians and other public officials whose income and wealth - often many times the national average - are being exposed to the public at a time when Latvia is undergoing painful budget cutbacks to rebound from a severe recession.
News of the electronic security breach surfaced last week, when an organization calling itself the People's Army of the Fourth Awakening told Latvian TV it had downloaded millions of classified documents over several months from the revenue service's Web site.
posted by Fergie @ 2/24/2010 12:39:00 PM
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