Cyberattack Exposes Personal Data of Thousands in Swedish Regions

All employees in the City of Stockholm have had their personal data leaked after the data breach against the system supplier Miljödata – as well as all current and former employees in Region Skåne since 2005.

» Published: Tue 9 Sept 2025 11:08 CEST

Cyberattack Exposes Personal Data of Thousands in Swedish Regions
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In Region Skåne, it concerns a total of 101,000 people, the region writes in a press release. At the same time, the leak has affected 28,000 employees and former employees in Linköping Municipality, according to P4 Östergötland.

Stockholm City has over 40,000 employees working in more than 300 different professions.

"The attacker has gained access to personal data of all employees in Stockholm City," it says in a letter sent to the employees, reports the newspaper Mitti.

The information includes, among other things, personal identity numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and employment IDs. People with protected information were not in Miljödata's system and have not been leaked.

Can be used "fraudulently"

"Possible consequences of the incident are that you risk losing control over your own personal data and that the personal data is used in a fraudulent manner," it says in the letter to employees in Stockholm City.

Last Friday, Gothenburg City also announced that personal data had leaked about employees in "all administrations and a number of companies". A total of as many as 165,000 current and former employees are affected.

Most of them are former employees. The entire city is not affected, however, but rather the administrations and companies, according to Kristina Högström.

Exposed to extortion

It was on August 23 that parts of Miljödata's IT environment were exposed to a cyber attack. 80 percent of Sweden's municipalities use the supplier, and the system handles, among other things, labor law cases, rehabilitation cases, as well as handling of work injuries and incidents.

Miljödata has, according to several media outlets, been exposed to extortion in connection with the IT attack.

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