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