2022 starting already with several major regional and European cyber security breaches

2022 already has a very aggressive start in terms of data security. Three recent cases reveal the pattern.?

Individual-scale?

AP?reports?about the “Pegasus“ case in Poland (in December 2021) and abuse of the law enforcement surveillance software that was allegedly used against prominent public figures.?

Collective-scale?

A?Montenegro government is about to pay a total of 816.000 EUR as reimbursement to its citizens (300 EUR per person) whose names, addresses, and Covid-19 health data were publicly revealed in 2021. Data were later used in a special mobile application for tracking people required to stay in self-isolation.?

Massive-scale?

Reuters?reports?about the epilogue of the massive personal data leak of Albanian citizens including salary and tax data. What seemed like foreign cyber terrorism is probably a case of internal misconduct, corruption, and abuse of public position. Several public officers were accused of stealing and (the attempt of) selling of the citizens’ data.?

Ranging from deliberate misconduct to negligence, from EU to WB6, from individual to massive-scale – digital privacy breaches continue to show the similar problem: weakness and poor implementation of public digital security policies.?

We all have good strategies and legal frameworks. They are just not implemented with enough rigidity.?

If we don’t work on that together, 2022 might show its teeth soon.?