Web developers who designed the Lands Authority website, through which sensitive data was published online after a major security flaw, have been awarded contracts and direct orders worth over €200,000 since 2013, Times of Malta has found.
Apart from its work for the Lands Authority, Webee Ltd has been awarded at least nine contracts totalling €202,839 since the Labour Party was elected to government in 2013. Most were direct orders.
The Lands Authority website made headlines last week after a joint investigation by Times of Malta and The Shift News revealed how thousands of documents, including ID cards and other e-mails, entrusted to the authority, could be searched and downloaded through Google and other search engines.
The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the breach, as is the Lands Authority. Webee Ltd has insisted that it did not work on the business application code subject to the breach.
Details on the latest batch of contracts awarded to the company emerged from this week’s Government Gazette containing a breakdown of all direct orders awarded by the Finance and Administration Directorate within the Office of the Prime Minister.
According to the Gazette,…
