Cyber Attacks On Norway’s Parliament

Norway's parliament, the Storting, has been hit by a cyberattack and the e-mail accounts of several elected members have been hacked. Unauthorised individuals managed to gain access to the email accounts of several elected members of parliament and also to some accounts belonging to parliament employees. 

The Storting’s Secretary Generalr, Marianne Andreassen confirmed that threat actors had targeted the parliament. "This has been a significant attack....  we are doing everything possible to analyse the situation so that we can build a complete picture of what has happened and the potential extent of the damage,” 

Speaking at a press conference, Andreassen did not specify how many accounts had been hacked but said that a "limited number" of ministers and employees had been impacted by the incident. Andreassen said the incident is currently under investigation, and, as a result, couldn't provide any insight into who was behind the attack, or the number of hacked accounts.

Norway's intelligence agency is currently investigating the incident, according to a statement the agency posted on its Twitter account.

Individuals whose accounts were exposed in the attack have been informed, and a report has been filed with the Norwegian police. A spokesman for Norway's main opposition party, the Labour Party, told public broadcaster NRK that the attack had impacted several Labour Party members and staff. After the incident was discovered, the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSA) was brought in to counter the attack and get to the bottom of what had happened

In a press release the Storting said that the attackers had made off with an unspecified amount of information.It read: "Burglary has been registered in the email accounts of a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. Our analyses show that different amounts of data have been downloaded." 

No information has been released regarding what kind of cyber-attack was perpetrated against the Norwegian parliament or who was responsible for it. 

In February 2019, cyber-security firms Rapid7 and Recorded Future revealed that Chinese hackers attacked Visma, a Norwegian company that provides cloud-based business software solutions for European companies and used this access to attack the company's customers. In 2018, Healthcare records of three million Norwegians compromised in "professional" cyber attack on the countty's South East regioanl Health Authority. 

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