I am a Swedish citizen. Lived here for almost 40 years. It is a bit unclear to be what the "the Swedish e-government platform" is. Would have been great if they at least could have published which domain name the service has.

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einr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not going to be a specific service or agency with a domain name, it's going to be services that are either internal and used by employees only, or that are integrated into other systems that you may be interacting with without knowing it.

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yaris 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would guess that skatteverket.se, polisen.se, kronofogden.se are among those affected by the leak.

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brabel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some other comments mention BankID private keys . That would be the biggest disaster as that’s what everyone uses to identify themselves “securely” on all government services.

	▲	mrkickling an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The private keys in BankID are stored in users phones, not centrally.

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einr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's an interesting guess that I assume is based on absolutely nothing?

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yaris 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, nothing and the facts that these are government services, they use BankID and they updated their websites with "maintenance work" announcements for tomorrow, Saturday. For kronofogden.se there was no maintenance planned just half an hour ago. Knowing swedish tendency to plan things months ahead I would _guess_ that this maintenance work has been rushed due to some circumstances.

	▲	einr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's quite possible that the maintenance is related, but I can nearly 100% assure you this has absolutely nothing to do with BankID. I don't know who suggested that but they are either poorly informed or actively trying to sow FUD.

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reliablereason 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nothing in particular, based on my understanding CGI a Swedish IT consultant company was hacked, they have contracts for and are the maintainers and developers of a bunch of various government departments IT services.

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lysace an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There is no such thing according to Peder Sjölander, IT Director at the Swedish Tax Agency:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-inform...

– Neither our data nor our users' data has been leaked. It is a service we use for e-signatures that has been affected, but there is no data from us or our users there, says

The information that source code was leaked from a joint government e-platform is not true, according to Peder Sjölander.

– There is no such platform. I think the perpetrators in this want people to feel insecure. We feel confident that our data is safe and we have the situation under control before the tax return period opens next week.