[ad_1]
Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) can breathe a sigh of relief after the hacker alarm went off at the Storting today.
Unlike the attacks on other members of the Storting, the attack on Mehl should not have allowed them to obtain information.
But not because they haven’t tried.
– I found out that someone tried to hack me last week. But they couldn’t get into my account, he tells Dagbladet.
– Something was wrong
As TV2 reported tonight, Mehl discovered about a week ago that the security system had been locked down and understood that it was a computer attack. It was around the same time that the Storting became aware of the irregularities.
Mehl does not want to elaborate on how he discovered the hacker’s attempt, so as not to reveal the Storting’s security routines.
Extensive IT attack on the Storting
What she still says is this:
– Something was wrong, and I contacted the IT department at the Storting to find out what it was, and I felt taken care of by them.
Only today, Tuesday, did he learn that others in the Storting have also been attacked by hackers and that the hackers have gotten lucky with someone.
– Not directed at me
– I find it uncomfortable. At the same time, data threats are something the Storting and other places with critical information are exposed to all the time. But it is unpleasant to know that someone has managed to extract information, and that is something that I consider very serious, he tells Dagbladet.
Fear of destruction of the courts
Although she is on the Justice Committee and works a lot with computer security issues, she does not believe that hackers specifically targeted her.
– I have no basis to say that it has been addressed to me, she says.
– What might the hackers have been looking for?
– All organizations that have an important function can be vulnerable to theft, and I do not want to speculate on who did it and why. IT attacks are not really uncommon and in my case the security worked so they have failed to extract information from me that I know of. That is the message I received from the Storting, he says.
Spotify attack
Mehl has also been the target of hacker attacks in the past, but then against his private Facebook and Spotify account.
Julie worked closely with Erna for 16 years. Sleep problems slowed her down
– I found out that someone used my Spotify account. I listened to music, and then someone started playing other music and then I listened again to what I was listening to. And then I found out that someone had logged into my Spotify account that was linked to Facebook, he says, and he says he then got Spotify to fix it.
She does not believe it was because the attack at the time put her on alert that she discovered the attack on the email account at the Storting.
– No, but I am a member of the justice committee, and we work a lot with data and IT threats, which is a big part of the current threat landscape according to PST. When I discover something that is not as it should be in my email or elsewhere, it is something that I am aware of. Computer attacks happen all the time, he says.
[ad_2]
