Dozens of confidential documents from the investigation were discoverable through search engines because the information on an unsecure website was posted, reports NRC Handelsblad. It would go to police investigations into cases of murder, robbery, criminal organizations and jihadverdachten.
The police has the security hole is confirmed and the documents offline. According to NRC Handelsblad were the files on a server running a website from a bookkeeper turned. A family member of the accountant and also administrator with the police would be the sensitive documents on an unprotected part of this site. By the name of suspects to enter in search engines such as Google could the files have been found and requested.
In the documents were criminal cases described, with suspects by the police were observed, including a group of jihadists who may be Syria would wish to travel. Also a leader of a criminal organization would be, among others, the investigation has to be followed. In the documents was information that came from the Criminal Intelligence Unit. This police department mostly works with informants, and does its work in silence.
In addition to the names of observed suspects were there in the files and also the names and addresses of investigators and prosecutors to find. According to NRC Handelsblad check the TO currently or the vulnerability may have consequences for ongoing investigations. Also, the authority launched an investigation into the incident, which among other things is an attempt to identify the documents requested. The responsible system administrator is on non-active.
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