The Local Sweden https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Pirate Bay co-founder charged for hacker attack Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was one of four people charged in Sweden on Tuesday on suspicions they hacked into several Swedish agencies and companies and attempted to transfer money out of the Nordea bank. https://www.thelocal.se/20130416/47376 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:37:00 +0200 47376 Swedes targeted in 'Anonymous' hack Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous. https://www.thelocal.se/20111227/38166 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:21:00 +0100 38166 Swedish FM's blog posts racy ads after hack Recent hacks on Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's blog have resulted in the site briefly displaying ads for Russian wives, Danish capital advisers and motivational speakers. https://www.thelocal.se/20101228/31114 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:22:00 +0100 31114 Police in the dark over well-planned web attack Swedish authorities are no closer to discovering who may have been behind two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that downed the websites of the police and some 40 media sites on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20091030/22984 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:05:00 +0100 22984 Police website falls victim to cyber attack A number of major Swedish websites were rendered inaccessible on Thursday in what is believed to be a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The Swedish authorities have thus far had no success in locating the source of the attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20091029/22950 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:29:00 +0100 22950 Swede indicted for NASA computer hack US authorities announced on Tuesday the indictment of a 21-year-old Swede on charges of hacking into computer systems at the NASA space agency and US networking giant Cisco. https://www.thelocal.se/20090506/19260 Wed, 06 May 2009 09:13:00 +0200 19260 Gang leader's email posted on the internet Hackers on Tuesday night accessed an email account used by the head of the Original Gangsters (OG) criminal gang and later published the correspondence on a popular internet forum. https://www.thelocal.se/20090107/16764 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:19:00 +0100 16764