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 Commuters in a southeast Swedish city were briefly roused from their wintry routines by a public display of pornography at a bus stop outside the central rail station, officials said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20200117/suspected-hackers-show-porn-on-swedish-station-billboard Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:11:16 +0100 suspected-hackers-show-porn-on-swedish-station-billboard The online editions of Sweden’s main newspapers were knocked out for several hours by unidentified hackers at the weekend, police said on Sunday as they launched an investigation. https://www.thelocal.se/20160320/hackers-force-swedish-newspapers-offline Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:58:06 +0100 hackers-force-swedish-newspapers-offline A group of 16-year-olds claimed responsibility for a series of hacking attacks this week, which among other things closed down train ticketing services across the country. https://www.thelocal.se/20130920/50342 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:22:00 +0200 50342 Online ticketing services at Swedish regional train service SJ went down on Wednesday following a suspected hacker attack, with the company warning passengers that a solution is still out of sight. https://www.thelocal.se/20130919/50328 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:15:00 +0200 50328 Monday’s attack on official websites in Sweden was not a full scale cyber-attack, according to experts, who say it may be a test run for a much bigger onslaught in the future. https://www.thelocal.se/20120904/42998 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:20:00 +0200 42998 A number of official websites in Sweden were rendered inaccessible on Monday, in what some have claimed to be a cyber-attack by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. https://www.thelocal.se/20120903/42982 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:19:00 +0200 42982 Personal details of thousands of Swedes, including those with protected identities, may have been accessed in a hacker attack targeting an IT-firm supplying services to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket). https://www.thelocal.se/20120329/39964 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:13:00 +0200 39964 When readers of the southern Sweden daily Sydsvenskan surfed onto the site on Monday, they were greeted not by the latest news from the region but images of a scantily clad Paris Hilton and other less-than-fully-dressed celebrities. https://www.thelocal.se/20120221/39242 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:28:00 +0100 39242 Hackers accessed email accounts of about 40 members Sweden’s police force who had the accounts hosted by the Swedish Association of Computer Professionals (Dataföreningen). https://www.thelocal.se/20080229/10170 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:44:00 +0100 10170 The web site of Swedish union organisation LO was hacked on the morning of New Year's Day. https://www.thelocal.se/20070101/5956 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:29:00 +0100 5956