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Swedish insurer Trygg-Hansa sanctioned over data failures

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Photo: Trygg-Hansa

Customer data was possible to access online openly for over two years.

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), has sanctioned Swedish insurer Trygg-Hansa Skr 35m ($3.2m) over having the data of 650,000 customers online for more than two years.

After a tip, IMY found that, without having to log in, anyone could access customers’ data to one of their branches, Moderna