{"id":554602,"date":"2026-07-17T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554602\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:34:17","slug":"irish-state-agencies-use-password-software-linked-to-russian-tech-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554602\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish State agencies use password software linked to Russian tech firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish State agencies have been using password software with links to a Russian tech agency, according to an Irish Times investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is linked to Moscow&#8217;s intelligence service, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/07\/17\/state-bodies-are-using-password-software-with-links-to-russia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>The software is sold by\u00a0the Spanish\u00a0company Passwork Europe, which claims to be an entirely EU-funded company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, it shares &#8220;striking similarities&#8221; with software of the same name which first appeared in Russia 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At least three Irish Government agencies use Passwork Europe, with each handling sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies are the Office of Public Works (OPW), the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the he Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/07\/17\/state-bodies-are-using-password-software-with-links-to-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>                                    NEWS<\/p>\n<p>These Irish State agencies use password software with deep links to a Russian tech firm<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish State agencies have been using password software with links to a Russian tech agency, according to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-554602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}