The central criminal police suspect one or more actors of having illegally accessed the e-mails of elected officials.
Le Monde avec AFP
The Finnish authorities announced on Monday (December 28th) that the Eduskunta – the unicameral Finnish parliament – had been the victim of a computer attack during the autumn. The mailboxes of some elected officials have potentially been hacked, the Parliament in a press release , without specifying either the dates of this computer attack or the number of parliamentarians whose messaging may have been compromised.
An investigation was entrusted to the central criminal police, in collaboration with Parliament and Finnish Internal Security. If the operation has not yet been attributed, Commissioner Tero Muurman, in charge of the investigation, said Monday in a statement that Parliament was not targeted” by chance or accident “. Due to the nature of the attack, the authorities investigated for espionage .
“One of the possibilities right now is that suspects have used a security hole to retrieve information, either for the benefit of another state, or to attack Finland, added Mr. Muurman . But we are assuming that the alleged perpetrators are reading the press articles about this attack so we do not will not give details of the investigation. “
Norwegian Parliament targeted in autumn
In September, it was in Norway that Parliament was targeted by a” significant “computer attack, during which data concerning elected officials were downloaded. At the time, the authorities said that the e-mails of several parliamentarians had been illegally consulted by external actors.
Following its investigation, Norway had, in October, publicly accused the Russian government of having organized and carried out this computer espionage operation.