2023-07-01 21:17:54
Hackers stole confidential documents from the Federal Security Service (SFS) during the attack on the Confederation service provider Xplain, according to concordant media reports. Files have been posted on the DarkNet.
Among the data stolen from the Bernese company Xplain is a 2018 document on security measures for diplomats and foreign embassies, as well as persons and objects protected by the Swiss Confederation, writes the NZZ am Sonntag. The addresses of federal advisers are listed, as are the residences of senior executives under protection.
The SonntagsBlick, for its part, claims that the hackers also got hold of Interpol arrest and extradition warrants as well as wanted notices for suspected criminals.
Crisis staff
The authorities did not react. The Confederation recently indicated that it is trying to find out how data from the federal police and customs offices stored by the Bernese computer company Xplain, which supplies software to the Swiss authorities, might have been stolen.
The Federal Council has set up a Federal Crisis Staff, responsible for coordinating the ongoing work to manage the ransomware attack once morest Xplain. “We must ensure that this data leak does not continue and that such a thing is no longer possible in the future,” Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said on Wednesday. She called the data leak ‘worrying’.
Hackers attacked Xplain with ransomware and stole large amounts of federal government data stored there. The Bernese company did not give in to blackmail and the hackers published data from the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Protection (OFDG) on the DarkNet on June 3. They posted more federal government operational data two weeks ago. The Public Ministry of the Confederation (MPC) has opened proceedings.
Millions of files
The Federal Council also has an administrative investigation mandate drawn up by the Federal Department of Finance. This investigation aims to independently examine whether, where and why the Confederation’s security guidelines may have been incorrectly applied. The question is in particular how a private IT supplier might have had the sensitive data.
Assessing and analyzing the incident and the stolen data might take several weeks or even months, as millions of files have been stolen.
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