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The Storting knew about the risk of hacking. Nevertheless, they stopped critical IT investigation by themselves.

IT services that were not risk assessed. Lack of graded network. Party groups that were subjected to hacking. This was the starting point when the Office of the Auditor General tried to investigate IT security in the Storting in 2017.

Aftenposten has discussed how the Storting’s presidency in 2017 stopped an investigation into the National Assembly’s IT security.

A few years later, the Storting became the target of three successful computer attacks. What is believed to be foreign intelligence stole thousands of emails from the country’s top elected officials.

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