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Title: Data Breach At Major Swedish Software Supplier Impacts 1.5 Million
Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/00132...
A massive cyberattack on Swedish IT supplier Miljodata exposed personal data
from up to 1.5 million citizens, prompting a national privacy investigation
and scrutiny into security failures across multiple municipalities.
BleepingComputer reports: MiljAdata is an IT systems supplier for roughly 80%
of Sweden's municipalities. The company disclosed the incident on August 25,
saying that the attackers stole data and demanded 1.5 Bitcoin to not leak it.
The attack caused operational disruptions that affected citizens in multiple
regions in the country, including Halland, Gotland, Skelleftea, Kalmar,
Karlstad, and Monsteras. Because of the large impact, the state monitored the
situation from the time of disclosure, with CERT-SE and the police starting
to investigate immediately. According to IMY, the attacker exposed on the
dark web data that corresponds to 1.5 million people in the country, creating
the basis for investigating potential General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) violations. [...] Although no ransomware groups had claimed the attack
when Miljodata disclosed the incident, BleepingComputer found that the threat
group Datacarry posted the stolen data on its dark web portal on September
13. The leaked database has been added to Have I Been Pwned, which contains
information such as names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone
numbers, government IDs, and dates of birth.
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