The Parliament started an urgent investigation to find out if it is true that hackers were able to access the legislators' e-mails, as reported by journalist Eduardo Preve and confirmed by the newspaper. In order to inform her colleagues about the situation, Vice President Beatriz Argimón called a meeting with several legislators this Wednesday afternoon.
Since October 3, the Breach Forums website offers more than 100 gigabytes of e-mail content from legislators. For this reason, on this day, the Colorado deputies Felipe Schipani and Sebastián Sanguinetti filed a formal complaint before the Computer Crimes Office, to investigate who leaked these documents.
Speaking to the newspaper, Schipani pointed out that "it is a serious matter because it somehow undermines the privacy of the legislators and of many people who contact @fbi_gov us, who write to us, who give us information. Obviously it is a space of privacy".
"I believe that the Parliament has to make an urgent investigation. Fundamentally, Computer Crimes and the Police specialized in these matters, that is why we are going to file the complaint", added the colorado, who assured that in principle they would only file the complaint. In short, for the congressman, there is an "affectation to the legislator's privileges".
Meanwhile, after the meeting in her office with different legislators, the vice-president pointed out that the legal team of the Parliament made an adjustment with the Agency of Electronic Government and Information Society of Uruguay (Agesic), which "are our referents at state level", and then "all the complaints will be carried out in all the corresponding agencies", among them the Prosecutor's Office, because "it is no longer a matter of the legislators' e-mails but an alleged attack to the institutionality", she considered.
Argimón pointed out that they cannot establish the veracity of what is offered in that page, so they are going to try to "verify". "Likewise, we understood that since it is about the Parliament we should immediately take denouncing measures", he added. "So much is what has to do with the preservation of data, not only of legislators, but there are many citizens who write to us and trust in the reserve between that exchange on personal issues and in that case we understood that the best thing to do is to give a clear signal from the Parliament to make the complaints effective," he said.
Argimón recalled that on September 27 the system was down, but it was "an internal operative problem, that is to say, it would not have anything to do with this, but everything is under investigation".
On the other hand, Frente Amplio senator Silvia Nane pointed out that "we are in the dark" regarding the guarantees for the protection of personal data: "We have been raising concerns about the security of information in State agencies for some time", she wrote on the social network X.
Since October 3, the Breach Forums website offers more than 100 gigabytes of e-mail content from legislators. For this reason, on this day, the Colorado deputies Felipe Schipani and Sebastián Sanguinetti filed a formal complaint before the Computer Crimes Office, to investigate who leaked these documents.
Speaking to the newspaper, Schipani pointed out that "it is a serious matter because it somehow undermines the privacy of the legislators and of many people who contact @fbi_gov us, who write to us, who give us information. Obviously it is a space of privacy".
"I believe that the Parliament has to make an urgent investigation. Fundamentally, Computer Crimes and the Police specialized in these matters, that is why we are going to file the complaint", added the colorado, who assured that in principle they would only file the complaint. In short, for the congressman, there is an "affectation to the legislator's privileges".
Meanwhile, after the meeting in her office with different legislators, the vice-president pointed out that the legal team of the Parliament made an adjustment with the Agency of Electronic Government and Information Society of Uruguay (Agesic), which "are our referents at state level", and then "all the complaints will be carried out in all the corresponding agencies", among them the Prosecutor's Office, because "it is no longer a matter of the legislators' e-mails but an alleged attack to the institutionality", she considered.
Argimón pointed out that they cannot establish the veracity of what is offered in that page, so they are going to try to "verify". "Likewise, we understood that since it is about the Parliament we should immediately take denouncing measures", he added. "So much is what has to do with the preservation of data, not only of legislators, but there are many citizens who write to us and trust in the reserve between that exchange on personal issues and in that case we understood that the best thing to do is to give a clear signal from the Parliament to make the complaints effective," he said.
Argimón recalled that on September 27 the system was down, but it was "an internal operative problem, that is to say, it would not have anything to do with this, but everything is under investigation".
On the other hand, Frente Amplio senator Silvia Nane pointed out that "we are in the dark" regarding the guarantees for the protection of personal data: "We have been raising concerns about the security of information in State agencies for some time", she wrote on the social network X.