In brief: on December 6, 2022, hackers penetrate the IT systems of the city of Antwerp. That hack has up to Today consequences for the staff and all residents of the city, such as a company that cannot obtain a permit, pool cards that still cannot be applied for or libraries where computers still do not work.
In recent years, the city of Antwerp has had its IT systems audited twice, once in 2020 and once in 2021. The audit from 2020 is a performance audit from Deloitte. This shows, among other things, that Antwerp does not comply with certain security measures suggested by the Belgian Center for Cybersecurity. Documents often quote from that review. However, the August 2021 audit rarely pops up.
That review is one ICT security audit of Deloitte, and it contains 22 vulnerabilities. Both the audit from 2020 and the one from 2021 that VRT NWS could view, advise the city to urgently work more on cybersecurity.
