EU Border Software Vulnerable to Hacks, Confidential Reports Warn
02 July 2025
Bloomberg, 2 July 2025.
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"The Schengen Information System II had thousands of cybersecurity issues that the European Data Protection Supervisor, an EU auditor, deemed to be of “high” severity in a 2024 report. It also found that an “excessive number” of accounts had administrator-level access to the database, creating “an avoidable weakness that could be exploited by internal attackers.”
While there is no evidence that any SIS II data was accessed or stolen, a breach “would be catastrophic, potentially affecting millions of people,” said Romain Lanneau, a legal researcher at EU watchdog Statewatch."
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