Cyber-attack halts production at three Swedish Kinnarps factories
Swedish furniture manufacturer Kinnarps detected a cyber-attack on 7 November and shut down its systems and servers. Production at its three factories in Kinnarp, Jönköping and Skillingaryd stopped and its website went offline, affecting around 920 employees. The company reported the incident to the police and investigated how the attackers gained access with external experts, stating that it had received no ransom demand.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Kinnarps
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-11-07
- Scale of damage
- Production halted at three factories in Sweden; around 920 employees affected
- Cause / method
- Network intrusion
- Location
- Sweden
Timeline
- Kinnarps detected a cyber-attack and shut down its systems and servers, bringing production at three factories to a halt.
- The company stated that it had reported the incident to the police and had received no ransom demand.
- It emerged that the company was working with external experts to investigate how the attackers gained access.
- Around 920 employees were reported to have been affected by the production stoppage.
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