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1st LD Writeth: Swedish municipality struck by cyber attack: media

Xinhua, May 12, 2017 Adjust font size:

Sweden's Timra municipality was struck by a massive cyber attack Friday afternoon, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported.

A variation of the WannaCry virus has infected Windows system and encrypts files locally and on shared services, and at least 70 computers were affected, the report said.

Shortly before 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon, screens turned blue, then black on several of the municipalities' computers. After the computers were rebooted, users got a message saying that the computers were encrypted and they had to pay to regain access to the content.

Right now it appeared that there was no risk to life or health, according to Sweden's national Computer Emergency Response Team. Endit