Overview
- Police confirm an extortion demand of 1.5 Bitcoin, and no criminal group has publicly claimed responsibility.
- Regions including Gotland and Halland warn that sensitive personal data may have been leaked from systems handling medical certificates, rehabilitation cases and occupational injuries.
- Miljödata says it is working with external experts to investigate and recover, while its website and email remain offline.
- CERT-SE and the police are investigating, and the civil defence minister says the scope remains unclear and has signaled tighter cybersecurity oversight.
- The supplier serves roughly 80% of Sweden’s municipalities, leaving more than 200 councils locked out of HR and incident-reporting platforms, and the privacy regulator has received about 70 incident notifications.