"Internet cable in the hard drive"

This is a translation of parts of the explanation offered by people responsible for the servers from which 2.7 million health/medical calls from Swedish citizens were exposed. According to media interviews with security experts, the phone calls were stored as WAV audio files on a completely unsecured server.

This translation is not a joke. The Swedish original is posted below the translation.

We don't know when it happened, but probably someone - during an update - simply plugged an internet cable into the hard drive. That gave it an IP address, which made it open for everyone. Normal people couldn't do it, but those who know stuff like this could perform some special command movement and sneak in through the back door.

We monitor our equipment for breaches and so forth. But I mean this was lying around like a hard drive behind everything, internally in a corner. It's comparable to a personal home hard drive.

Swedish version, from this article on Dagens Nyheter:

Vi vet inte när det hände, men troligtvis har någon under en uppdatering helt enkelt stoppat in en internetsladd i hårddisken. Då fick den en ip-adress, och då var det fritt fram. Vanliga personer klarade inte av det, men de som kan sådant här kunde göra något slags speciell kommandorörelse och slinka in bakvägen."

 Vi övervakar vår utrustning för intrång och så vidare. Men den här låg ju som en hårddisk bakom allting, internt i ett hörn. Det är jämförbart med en personlig hemmahårddisk

For an English article on the full story, read this report from BBC .