Norway's Parliament, Stortinget, says hackers gained access and downloaded content for "a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees."
PST er kjent med IT-angrepet mot Stortinget. Når PST har mottatt anmeldelsen vil vi vurdere om det er grunnlag for å starte etterforskning. https://t.co/UIuqeXgaea
— PST (@PSTnorge) September 1, 2020
While the investigation remains ongoing, Andreassen said that Stortinget has already started notifying impacted representatives and employees about the incident.
Local press, who first broke the story about the attacks, also reported that the parliament's IT staff has packed up its email service to stop the hackers from siphoning more data.
Before today's incident, cyber-attacks targeting Norway are rare and much apart.
In January 2018, a hacker group stole healthcare data for quite half of Norway's population, consistent with local press.
In February 2019, cyber-security firms Rapid7 and Recorded Future revealed that Chinese hackers breached Visma, a Norwegian company that gives cloud-based business software solutions for European companies, and used this access to attack the company's customers.
In May 2020, a gaggle of internet scammers tricked Norfund, Norway's state investment fund, out of $10 million, in an attack referred to as a business email compromise.
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