”We recently discovered unauthorized access by a third party regarding data related to Alert Alarm stored with an external billing partner. We are currently working to investigate the incident together with our expert advisors and have notified the police and relevant authorities", the company writes to TT.
The data breach includes current and former customers of Alert Alarm, according to Verisure.
”Based on a detailed review of the system's logs, we have found that the affected data is limited to names, addresses, email addresses, and personal identity numbers for approximately 35,000 current and former customers of Alert Alarm in Sweden”, Verisure writes in an email.
”It is important to note that forensic analysis has so far not identified any signs of intrusion into Verisure's own network or systems”, the company writes further.
The police state to SVT that they have initiated a preliminary investigation regarding extortion and gross data intrusion.
We will now investigate what may have happened and as I understand it, we have no clear picture of the whole thing at present, says press spokesperson Olle Älveroth at police region east to SVT.
