Government Hack

A couple of years ago, the personal data of five million citizens was stolen from a government database and uploaded online. This was a surprise to me as I didn’t know the government had any databases - my visa applications were all done on sheets of paper plucked from walls of ring-binders. These were some comments made by the minister responsible:
– ‘Don’t worry, we still have the originals.’
– ‘Well, if we didn’t use electronic data, this wouldn’t have happened.’
– ‘Who resigns over just one incident?’
– ‘We’ve arrested a twenty year old Bulgarian. This proves we have a great education system.’