As it turns out, not only those in power in Poland have problems with using private e-mail boxes to send business correspondence. , in 2023, data of Finnish intelligence employees (Supo) was leaked. An employee on sick leave contributed to this.
Scandal in Finland. Secret data was sent to private Gmail
According to STT, last summer one of Supo’s employees asked to send him his pay slips. Supo then tasked staff at the state’s human resources (HR) services center to prepare this information.
After receiving them, the Finnish intelligence agency sent the content of the HR e-mail with all attachments to the employee using the “Forward” function. The problem was that the email contained not only information about the wages of this particular person, but also of as many as 586 Supo employees. The list included, among others: home addresses, salary information, as well as details related to the recruitment of these people.
All this secret information ended up in a private Gmail inbox. After receiving them, the employee reported that he received data that he should not have received. In an official statement, Supo said the leak was due to carelessness at the HR center as well as the agency itself. Finnish intelligence emphasized that the likelihood of further dissemination of this data was “extremely low.”
E-mail scandal in Poland. Messages from Michał’s mailbox are circulating on the Internet
Since June 2021, e-mails purporting to come from the e-mail box of Michał Dworczyk, as well as other representatives of the ruling party, have been regularly published on social media. The Government Information Center, in response to our questions, previously stated that we were dealing with a “disinformation campaign conducted by people from the territory of the Russian Federation.” The Chancellery of the Prime Minister regularly refuses to comment on individual e-mails to the media.
“Cybernetic attacks on our country are a modern hybrid war. So let’s not fit into the attackers’ scenario. Let’s not spread the content of materials or alleged messages stolen from the mailboxes of Polish politicians,” wrote CIR.
Source: Gazeta
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