{"id":224528,"date":"2025-11-05T05:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/data-breach-at-major-swedish-software-supplier-impacts-1-5-million"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:24:01","slug":"data-breach-at-major-swedish-software-supplier-impacts-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/data-breach-at-major-swedish-software-supplier-impacts-1-5-million","title":{"rendered":"Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-breach-at-major-swedish-software-supplier-impacts-1-5-million.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT systems supplier Milj\u00f6data that exposed data belonging to 1.5 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Milj\u00f6data is an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden\u2019s municipalities. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/it-system-supplier-cyberattack-impacts-200-municipalities-in-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disclosed the incident<\/a> on August 25, saying that the attackers stole data and demanded 1.5 Bitcoin to not leak it.<\/p>\n<p>The attack caused operational disruptions that affected citizens in multiple regions in the country, including Halland, Gotland, Skellefte\u00e5, Kalmar, Karlstad, and M\u00f6nster\u00e5s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT systems supplier Milj\u00f6data that exposed data belonging to 1.5 million people. Milj\u00f6data is an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden\u2019s municipalities. The company disclosed the incident on August 25, saying that the attackers stole data and demanded 1.5 Bitcoin to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}