This data is publically available to anyone in Sweden:
Your salary (well, last years taxable income), debts/credit rating, criminal history, address, phone number, which vehicles and properties you own and which company boards you're on.
One of organized criminals biggest income these days are scamming rich old folks because it's so trivial to get all details needed (and who to target) to be a pretty convincing bankman, IRS type agent/etc.
Some of it you have to kind of manually request at various places, but it's all available.
So data breaches aren't really that big of a deal when everything is already public.
Miljödata is an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden's municipalities. The company disclosed the incident on August 25, saying that the attackers stole data and demanded 1.5 Bitcoin to not leak it.
Yet another sign that governments and corporations should support SECURE programming language development and treat it like other (critical) infrastructure.
I'd rather say we need more cyber anarchy and chaos within Europe. We need security researchers and the CCC and similar organizations with an absolute freedom to hack everything in Europe.
Get into everything, break every security control in Europe, be a pain. As long as function is not impacted, and security problems are reported responsibly. Don't DoS a power plant because you think you can, and face a judge if you do.
That's what foreign powers are doing and slowly collecting as preparation for the future, and that's the only real way to increase cyber security across the board.
We don’t know what happened but rumor is it was a file that was uploaded for an integration and that the server wasn’t secured. Same would have happened no matter if using Rust or any other language.
Your salary (well, last years taxable income), debts/credit rating, criminal history, address, phone number, which vehicles and properties you own and which company boards you're on.
One of organized criminals biggest income these days are scamming rich old folks because it's so trivial to get all details needed (and who to target) to be a pretty convincing bankman, IRS type agent/etc.
Some of it you have to kind of manually request at various places, but it's all available.
So data breaches aren't really that big of a deal when everything is already public.
Related:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/it-system-sup...
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/cyberattack-i-datasystem-...
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/integritetsmyndigheten-in...
Get into everything, break every security control in Europe, be a pain. As long as function is not impacted, and security problems are reported responsibly. Don't DoS a power plant because you think you can, and face a judge if you do.
That's what foreign powers are doing and slowly collecting as preparation for the future, and that's the only real way to increase cyber security across the board.
Doesn't matter what language you use if you don't actually maintain the software.
That said, I'd also prefer maintained java over unmaintained rust, so I do see your point.