Miljödata fined SEK 1.8 million
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Miljödata fined SEK 1.8 million after major data breach, Swedish watchdog says

The systems provider Miljödata is being fined SEK 1.8 million by the Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) after the high-profile data breach last autumn.

According to the company, 2.2 million people were affected by the cyberattack last fall.

IMY's review shows that the company did not have a sufficiently high level of technical and organisational security.

They have not carried out sufficient checks when installing new software and have not had automatic real-time monitoring of their systems to detect intrusions and suspicious activity, IMY writes in a press release.

"Here, Environmental Data has failed and the result is that a threat actor came across information about a large part of Sweden's population. We take what happened seriously," says IMY Director General Eric Leijonram in a comment.

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