Incidents in country:
8 incidents catalogued
In December 2025, a database of the Brazilian crowdfunding platform APOIA.se was posted to an online forum. In January 2026, the company confirmed it had suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 451k unique email addresses along with names and physical addresses.
In August 2025, the Swedish system supplier Miljödata was the victim of a ransomware attack. Following the attack, data was subsequently published on the dark web and included 870k unique email addresses across various compromised files.
REvil's ransomware attack on Kaseya VSA cascaded through an MSP to Coop Sweden's checkout systems, forcing the supermarket cooperative to close around 800 stores nationwide for days.
REvil affiliates exploited a SQL injection zero-day in Kaseya's VSA remote-management platform to push ransomware to ~60 MSPs and through them to ~1,500 downstream organisations. The largest supply-chain ransomware attack on record.
Attackers breached Swedish physical-security firm Gunnebo, stole 19 GB of data, and after the company refused to pay, leaked bank-vault floor plans, alarm schematics, and security arrangements for high-value clients including a Swedish parliament building.
A botched IT outsourcing deal exposed Sweden's entire vehicle and driver-licence database — including data on protected identities, police, and military personnel — to foreign IT workers without security clearance, triggering a national political crisis.
In July 2015, the Swedish video store chain Hemmakväll was hacked and nearly 50k records dumped publicly. The disclosed data included various attributes of their customers including email and physical addresses, names and phone numbers.
In February 2015, the Swedish forum known as Flashback had sensitive internal data on 40k members published via the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. The data was allegedly sold to them via Researchgruppen (The Research Group) who have a history of exposing otherwise anonymous users, primarily those…