The attack began three years ago, but no police report was made, according to Dagens Nyheter.
investigation has revealed important weaknesses in how agencies handle sensitive information, writes Dagens Nyheter.
Two men, one of them Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, is suspected of stealing records from including Tax.
It was in January 2010 that the IT company Logica discovered that the servers were under attack. Several precautions were taken, but no police report was made.
attack gained culprits details on how the IT system worked at Logica, the Tax Agency operates Spar registry with census data.
In January 2012, hackers came across a password to the Parliamentary account with Spar registry and thus had a key in the register.
system was nearly 20 years old, account details, some with very simple passwords.
– The system has obviously had several security flaws. The fact that there are 20 year old account information has not been picked off is remarkable, says Louise Yngström, Professor of Computer and System Sciences, told the newspaper.
– A complete record of all persons in Sweden should have more security, she says.
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