Incidents in country:
6 incidents catalogued
The Play ransomware gang breached Swiss IT supplier Xplain and leaked around 65,000 documents on the darknet, including sensitive Federal Administration files from the justice, police, and defence departments.
Play ransomware breached Swiss IT services provider Xplain, exfiltrating 1.3 million files. Approximately 65,000 documents belonging to the Swiss Federal Administration — including classified content, personal data, and readable passwords — were published on Play's dark-web leak site in June 2023.
The BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware gang struck aviation ground-handling giant Swissport, delaying flights at Zurich Airport and stealing 1.6 TB of data that was later leaked online.
Swiss price-comparison portal Comparis was knocked offline by ransomware and faced a roughly $400,000 demand; investigators later found attackers had accessed some internal customer data.
In May 2020, the hacking forum Nulled.ch was breached and the data published to a rival hacking forum. Over 43k records were compromised and included IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes alongside the private message history of the website's admin.
In December 2017, the online Swiss DVD store known as dvd-shop.ch suffered a data breach. The incident led to the exposure of 68k email addresses and plain text passwords. The site has since been updated to indicate that it is currently closed.