The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, spoke this Monday about the cyber attack that compromised the servers of the National Directorate of Civil Identification, leaving 84,001 passport folders in the hands of cybercriminals with all the data of each person, including photo, fingerprint , full name, identity card number and others, which is only known when the government responded to a request for information made last year by the senator of the Broad Front, Silvia Nane.
“We have called for bids and we are awarding these days all new, state-of-the-art Civil Identification equipment,” Heber announced at a press conference after leaving a meeting of the National Party board.
“We had very old computers, unfortunately, and very vulnerable, that’s what we inherited,” he said, blaming the Broad Front government. And he added: “We made the purchase and a software that really gives us the security that we cannot be hacked like that easily.”
The minister assures that the adequacy is planned “permanent, in order to be with the latest news to act with cyber crime.”
“We have no data that information has been extracted from us for other purposes. We have not seen any consequences of information that is reserved, that has Civil Identification”, Heber specified in front of the journalists.
