Breaches and incidents
Nykoping municipality (Sweden): municipal website manipulated by unknown party
Nykoping kommun says its IT department discovered on a Friday evening that “someone had manipulated the municipal website” and that “Nothing else is...
- Disclosed
- Verification
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What happened
- Nykoping kommun says its IT department discovered on a Friday evening that “someone had manipulated the municipal website” and that “Nothing else is affected at present”; the page was last updated 5 Oct 2026 and gives no exact incident date.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- The problem was identified, isolated and fixed, the IT department is analysing the incident, internal information security routines are being tightened, and the incident was reported to the police.