Outgoing Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz (Security and Justice) wants an independent investigation into the employees of the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) and the police suspected of leaking state secrets. The independent investigation will be separate from the Rijksrecherche criminal investigation and will not get in its way, she said in a letter to parliament.
A massive data breach first reported in the Netherlands this week now also includes at least some sensitive financial information. The leak now includes the income data of people who are still accruing a pension with the PME Pension Fund, in addition to their names, genders, ages, and phone numbers. The data of roughly two million residents of the Netherlands may have been stolen in a cybercrime when outside parties reportedly used a security hole and managed to gain access to companies using software from Nebu, according to the latest figures.