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Uppsala County Third-Party Breach (January 2024)

πŸ“… 2024-01-01 🏒 TietoEVRY
Primary Source β†—

Incident Details

Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities. Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered an Akira ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden. The story was updated on 1/22/24 with Tietoevery’s confirmation that they suffered an Akira ransomware attack. Tietoevry is a Finnish IT services company offering managed services and cloud hosting for the enterprise. The company employs approximately 24,000 people worldwide and had a 2023 revenue of $3.1 billion. Third-party company: TietoEVRY.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
TietoEVRY
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2024-01-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2024-01-21 Publicly disclosed