Hacking group defaces Faroe Islands tourist website, but kept out of government systems

A hacking group defaced the tourist website for the Faroe Islands – a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark — and claimed it stole employee data and other sensitive information.

The archipelago of 18 islands has a population of 54,000 and is situated between Norway, Iceland and Scotland’s Shetland Islands.

An IT security specialist with Gjaldstovan – an arm of the island’s Ministry of Finance in charge of public IT, finance and digitalisation – told The Record that the …

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