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Bank ID does not know who or what is behind the attack.
– We also don’t know what the purpose could have been. We go to law enforcement when you’re exposed to something like this, says Malin Wemnell.
The result of the attack, a so-called ddos attack, was that the service was completely down or very slow between 7:45 PM and 8:15 PM, Bank-id claims. Now the service should be working again.
– We took technical countermeasures and stopped the attack. We have routines and processes to handle these attacks and our users can feel safe, says Wemnell.
She emphasizes that congestion attacks are a threat to all companies that have a digital presence. The company has not detected any other attacks in connection with the ddos attack.
The Bank ID e-identification has eight million users and is used, among other things, for identification with government websites, for making purchases at Internet banks and for the Swish payment service.