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Regional governement's Healthcare sector reportedly hacked by Assange supporters

Friday, 23 November 2012
An international hacker network is suspected to have hacked in the website of a Western Sweden (Västra Götaland Region) regional government healthcare website.

The tabloid newspaper, Expressen reports that the hackers could be described as the loosely assembled hacker network known as Anonymous, which claims to support Julian Assange. The hackers may have been able to get over confidential patient information from the early 1990s to the fall of 2009.

This include the name, address and some information that can be linked to the disease of patient, however, no medical records were reported missing.

In an email to Västra Götaland County Council IT section, a warning directed to the Swedish and British authorities was sent saying: "We will not abandon Julian Assange." Writes Expressen.

Whether the hackers actually accessed and collected information is not clear. According to Expressen, the patients in the area around Trollhattan, Vanersborg and Uddevalla who may have been affected. The operation should have taken place in August this year.

The investigation of the case seems to have demonstrated that IT security around the system had major flaws, writes Expressen.
"They have made it through our security barriers and come to a server where data were available. Whether they made it with data or not, we can not answer," said Göran Ejbyfeldt, IT Director at Västra Götaland, to Expressen.

According Ejbyfeldt the problem is now be fixed and the case has been reported to the police as a suspected hacking.
by Scancomark.com Team

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