Cyber-attack on Sweden's Coop exposes data of 167,000 people
Swedish supermarket chain Coop suffered a cyber-attack and moved to respond. It later emerged that a data leak had exposed the information of 167,000 people. Russian hackers were suspected of being behind the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Coop
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information of 167,000 people exposed
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- Sweden
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Timeline
- It emerged that Coop was responding to a cyber-attack.
- It emerged that the Coop data leak had exposed the information of 167,000 people.
- Russian hackers were suspected of being behind the attack.
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