The Ministry of the Interior has been struck by a data breach. That confirms a spokesperson for that department on Thursday NRC. According to the spokesman, it would be a report that came in about “a privacy issue,” which he calls “pretty serious” and who has “full attention.”
Details about the data that have been leaked are not yet known. Nor is it clear what impact the event has on the work of civil servants.
According to BNR reports, several ministries would have to do with a leak; For example, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth would also have been affected. The ministries are not yet wearing this NRC confirmed.
A ‘data breach procedure’, which the Ministry of the Interior has opened, is a report to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP). It arrived on Thursday afternoon.
According to the Domestic Affairs spokesperson, the ministry is more often due to reports of unauthorized data use. These reports can be made from authorities, hackers or citizens. The nature of the report also differs at a time: “It can be wide; it may differ from a name that is unauthorized somewhere, to a photo that should not have been used.”