Transparency gone wrong: Finland accidentally leaks passport & ID copies as public information

[KDX]

PRH - Current issues - Company documents with personal identity codes and passport details have been available for purchase in Virre Information Service

www.prh.fi

The Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) has gone through 5.7 million Trade Register documents in its electronic archive. The documents were reviewed using batch processing to improve security.

The batch processing showed that documents containing personal identity codes and passport copies have been available for purchase in the PRH Virre Information Service. They are now encrypted and can no longer be purchased in Virre.
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In total, we have identified 3,495 purchases related to notifications in which the documents erroneously included personal identity codes or passport copies as public information. More than half of these purchases were made by an authority. The number is less than 0.5 per cent of all the documents in the electronic archive.
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It is most unlikely but possible that erroneously disclosed personal identity codes are misused.


"We apologise for this inconvenience."

Oops!

This "transparency" s**t is crazy!

 

[Golden Fleece]

Well, at least the Fins were honest -- and didn't blame it on Russian hackers.

 

[Martin Everson]

But this is standard practice in Georgia to have passport copy or ID on full public view .