The Swedish Prosecutor’s Office has announced that a preliminary investigation carried out with the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has concluded that the Iranian state, via the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), carried out a special operation against targets in Sweden. Hackers allegedly breached a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service last summer and sent out 15,000 messages calling for “revenge against Quran burners.”
“Through the investigation, we have been able to establish the identities of the Iranian hackers who carried out the serious data breach,” Mats Ljungqvist, senior prosecutor for the Prosecutor’s Office, said in a press release.
“We have succeeded in breaking this down at the corresponding individual level and can then connect it to the Revolutionary Guard, which in turn is directly connected to the Iranian regime,” said Fredrik Hallström, operations manager at Säpo, to the news agency TT.
