The teenager interviewed by SVT refuses to give an interview in his own voice so that it would not be possible to identify him.
A teenager living in Uppsala county is suspected of two major data breaches and the leaking of thousands of people’s personal information. Swedish public broadcasting company SVT says that he interviewed a teenager who says that he is behind the data breaches.
Last week, the Uppsala region reported on the data breach of the Upplann public transport application, which leaked the personal information of more than 700,000 people. The leaked information concerned, among other things, people’s phone numbers, purchase history and email addresses.
The Uppsala region filed a criminal complaint about the case shortly after the suspected hacker contacted them and revealed that he had accessed users’ personal information. The application’s vulnerability has since been patched.
– We don’t feel that this is about aid, although of course we have learned by closing yet another gap. We have received contacts about vulnerabilities in the service in the past, but this is about a data breach and data leakage, which is illegal, marketing manager of the company responsible for Uplann’s public transport system Nikodemus Kyhlentells SVT.
Earlier this week, the Swedish Transport Agency reopened an investigation into a denial-of-service attack that occurred a year ago, which caused problems in the driving test booking system. Last week, however, the person behind the attack said he had gained access to the agency’s databases.
The hacker suspected of the attacks has shown SVT how he carried out the attack. SVT says that it is in constant contact with the teenage hacker. However, he refuses to give an interview in his own voice so that it would not be possible to identify him.