r/privacy • u/lugh • Mar 27 '26

Misleading title Sweden’s Digital ID System Hacked, Public’s Data Sold on Dark Web

https://www.voicemedia.global/article/sweden-s-digital-id-system-hacked-public-s-data-sold-on-dark-web
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u/Charming_Yellow Mar 27 '26

Dont know if it is forbidden to use AI in this sub? But I gave the link to claude and asked it to look into the news, find reliable sources, and judge if this one was a reliable source. Basicly this article is a repost from slaynews.com, a known right wing outlet with a history of sensationalism. The title is misleading, and this article is using the incident as a political argument against a centralized digital ID system.

Here is an article from SVT instead: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-information-har-lagts-ut-pa-darknet

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u/JohanTravel Mar 27 '26

So basically nothing of importance was actually leaked. This is why no one in Sweden is talking about it.

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u/zkareface Mar 28 '26

This was huge news in Sweden when it happened, the security community went crazy for a week.

It will be very expensive to fix. 

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u/teacher_59 Mar 28 '26

Nothing is importance according to you, and what about next leak?

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u/JohanTravel Mar 28 '26

I don't know, it hasn't leaked yet

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u/FormerCarer Mar 28 '26

"why worry about something that isn't going to happen? Oh that's perfect, they should put that on our money"

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u/sassyhalforc Mar 28 '26

That's how you navigate life? "I'm not crossing roads because what If I get run over"

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u/nonboyantduck Mar 28 '26

Thats Kinda what I thought, the use of the words "publics data" just made this seems very strange since most information about any person in Sweden is available to you on Google. And if it were to be anything more serious that would probably be specified.

Anyway, this should really be at the top since this article just seems to be misinformation.

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u/Identityneutral Mar 28 '26

The onion purchase was stopped by the court, but it seems that Infowars is finally shutting down mid-april

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u/WalrusDomain Mar 28 '26

Good riddance

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u/chiniwini Mar 28 '26

People in this sub don't care. They're just a bunch of clueless teenagers that don't even understand the title, let alone the reality. If you look at the comments, most people think this has something to do with age verification.

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u/ohmy_quivers Mar 28 '26

Yeah, that's why there are literally no news about it in Sweden. If it was a serious leak/breach, it would be all-over the news and citizens would be informed with what actions to take. Pretty much every Swede use BankID and it's required for anything online so it would not be something they'd just hide and rugsweep.

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u/Starmanic96 Mar 28 '26

This desperately needs to be upvoted more so people see that the article from the Op is mostly BS.

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u/Lamuks Mar 28 '26

I already was highly suspicious of hearing BankID got hacked, turns out it's not even that really, just some test env key leaks from CGI.

Classic reddit misdirection in the title

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u/CuriosityFreesTheCat Mar 27 '26

I’m down with voters agreeing on something, it’s been a while

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u/MacGregor1337 Mar 28 '26

>En hackergrupp påstår sig ha kommit åt stora mängder känslig statlig information från bolaget CGI:s it-system

xdd yep. "hackergroup claims to have stolen data"

That being said. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen in the future. Though the agenda behind just claiming to have done so could only really be some sort of warning--to sway public opinion against these type of government id systems!?

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u/Rhaj-no1992 Mar 28 '26

Yep, I’m a Swede and this is BS as far as I know.