The parliamentary session that was adjourned last week following a “cyber-incident” will resume as of Tuesday, November 8. House Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) announced that a criminal complaint had already been filed and that the police are investigating whether the cause was negligence or ill intent. Meanwhile, as Noviny Plus website found out, the "cyber incident" over which the session was adjourned, was caused by MP Robert Halak from the OLaNO movement, who inadvertently connected a cable he should have left unplugged. Halak underlined it was not any malice on his part, just an honest mistake. When he noticed a disconnected cable, he automatically decided to plug it in. Subsequently, individual systems started to fail, even before the scheduled vote. "An excessive undesired data communication was detected in the computer network's internal segment, manifested by a system overload at the CPU level of individual computers," stated House Chair Boris Kollar. Kollar added that all recommendations by the National Security Authority would be applied to prevent a re-occurrence of the "cyber incident". The House Chair also had a report drafted to examine why this specific point of the network had not been better protected and asked how was it possible that such a banality had shut down the entire Parliament.
Source: TASR
