Sweden May Take Weeks to Restore Damage From Cyber Attack

Computer systems of Swedish government agencies made inoperable by an attack on a Tietoevry Oyj data center may be down for weeks, the country’s civil defense minister said.

The ransomware attack carried out during the weekend by a group known as Akira has crippled payroll processing at a large number of institutions, and caused additional problems at hospitals, cinemas and other businesses. At a news conference on Friday, Carl-Oskar Bohlin said 178 reports have been filed on potential personal data breaches since Saturday.

“We are dealing with a very serious incident, and we don’t know the full extent of it ...