The hackers' new deadline is expiring

For a week ago, the deadline was extended again by the hackers who threaten to leak personal data from Sportadmin. Now it expires. Based on the police's and security experts' assessment, we assume that the data will be released in some form, says Jennie Everhed, communications manager at Lime Technologies, the company behind the app.

» Published: Tue 18 Feb 2025 11:48 CET

The hackers' new deadline is expiring
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However, the company has not yet heard from the hacker group about a further extension of the deadline or a confirmed leak, and they do not want to speculate about when it may happen.

As we have always said, we have not been in contact with the perpetrator ourselves. This is in accordance with the directives we have received from the police and experts. We do not want to promote this form of organized crime in any way, says Everhed.

They are also maintaining their stance on not paying any ransom to the hacker group, which according to information from DN is the Russian-linked group Ransomhub.

On January 16, Sportadmin was hit by a data breach. The company reports that it has personal data from 1.1 million children and adults, from 1,700 sports associations.

The full extent of the breach is not yet known.

Together with the associations, we have taken the legal measures available to us and informed all affected parties about the incident, so that they can take precautions. Now it is primarily a police matter, and we can only appeal to everyone's common sense not to download or spread this information in any way, in order not to further exacerbate the damage for those affected.

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