{"id":150845,"date":"2026-08-23T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150845\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:25:17","slug":"cyberattack-on-the-road-traffic-safety-directorate-experts-explained-how-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150845\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack on the Road Traffic Safety Directorate: Experts Explained How It Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.inbox.eu\/w\/img\/76\/be\/76be6aa397f5067304-800x0.webp\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" onload=\"if(this.width &lt;= 1){this.src=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In other words, the application is outside the oversight sphere provided for &#8220;Tet&#8221; under the contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to the concluded contract, &#8220;Tet&#8221; manages the network resources, connections, infrastructure of the Road Traffic Safety Directorate, and monitors the data flow. At the same time, the technology company is not a cybersecurity service provider for the services and applications developed by the Road Traffic Safety Directorate, the LETA agency was informed by &#8220;Tet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It has already been reported that Valainis instructed the board of &#8220;Possessor&#8221; together with the council of the telecommunications and technology company &#8220;Tet&#8221; to prepare a report on the information available to &#8220;Tet&#8221; regarding the cyber incident at CSDD.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs stated on social media on Thursday that the hack occurred using the Road Traffic Safety Directorate&#8217;s &#8220;Medical&#8221; platform, which is used by about 200 doctors to input medical certificates for vehicle drivers.<\/p>\n<p>He said that access to &#8220;Medical&#8221; was possible through a username and password, adding that the Road Traffic Safety Directorate should have had secure multi-factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it didn\u2019t work out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In other words, the application is outside the oversight sphere provided for &#8220;Tet&#8221; under the contract. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[169,168],"class_list":["post-150845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-latvia","tag-riga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117143635817077384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}