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Slovak secret agents revealed

Written by Boris Mutina (minor)

Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Another embarrassing incident happened last weekend in Slovakia.
The announced posting of complete telephone book on popular website Zoznam.sk from all phone operators during weekend turned to a serious security incident. One of the phone-numbers-databases provided by T-Mobile contained also numbers that should have been classified (on customer's wish), and among them there were also more than 700 mobile phone numbers of Slovak secret service SIS.

Slovak newspaper SME informed about this incident during the weekend on his web edition.

Customers, who found their classified numbers published, immediately called the operator but, in spite of this, such numbers had been accessible for more than 24 hours. Considering the reactions of SIS officials, it was clear they were surprised and astonished. Sure. How could they be less than surprised?

Not only Classified mobile phone numbers were revealed, but also secret service agents’ number were disclosed – this could be a real disaster.

SIS spokesman Karol Sorby said in an official statement, that "disclosing of data related to SIS on website ... is leakage of classified information and serious breach of telecommunication secret."

How serious was this leakage, we will see in next weeks. According to SME, reporters tried to call on some of these numbers, and none but one among the people who answered, admitted to be working for Slovak secret services.

There are many questions still un-answered, for example: why didn't secret service bought the mobile phones through another company to hide the real owner of the mobile phone?

Or, concerning Mobile Operators: How many employees can access records with classified numbers?

Slovak Telecommunication office has already started an investigation. But in the meantime T-Mobile informed that those records that should have been secret, were actually filed into their database. As a consequences, harsh measures will be taken against the employee who is responsible for this.

Anyway, it seems that in spite of the fact that Slovak Republic joins the EU and the NATO, its IT security level is very low. And the weakest point in such un-steady security chain, concerns the human factor.

One year ago, crackers breached into Narodny bezpecnostny urad (national security authority) using the password "nbusr123". Investigation on this case is still not finished.

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