2011-10-26 Ruotsidemokraatit ja salasanaskandaali

[Torrente]

OMGWTF: Passwords of 93,000 Politicians, Reporters, Bloggers Leaked

In what is arguably the largest-scale security breach so far in Sweden that didn't come in the form of a parliamentary decision, a leak of 93,678 password-email combinations became public today. The accounts belong to all the top reporters, politicians, and bloggers in Sweden.

Somebody trolled the entire establishment with gleeful precision in using this data. William Petzäll, a high-profile defected Sweden Democrat who is now an independent Member of Parliament, started tweeting an apparent revenge on his former party this morning.

Petzäll claimed that the leadership of the Sweden Democratic party ("SD") had had access to most reporters' and competing politicans' email accounts for years, and that this was how they navigated their way into Parliament last year. To prove his point, he tweeted a number of MD5 password hashes and matching email addresses. As pretty much the entire political press was already paying attention to his tweets, this sent off an earthquake, followed by several confirmations dropping in quickly that the passwords were correct.

Onko uutiselle mitään "virallisempaa" lähdettä?

[kohmelo]

HS: Ruotsidemokraatit liitettiin toimittajien sähköpostivakoiluun
http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/Ruotsidemokraatit+liitettiin+toimittajien+s%C3%A4hk%C3%B6postivakoiluun/a1305547986410

The Local: Top Sweden Democrats accused of spying
http://www.thelocal.se/36952/20111025/