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Swedish Arts Council

bd_99fae60a6f644ddc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Oct 31, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Swedish Arts Council

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomhouse on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Public SectorDiscovered: 2025-11-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Kulturrådet is a government agency that promotes the development of culture, provides information, and grants funding to realize national cultural policy. It focuses on various cultural sectors including music, literature, visual arts, performing arts, and support for children and youth. The agency aims to enhance international collaboration and cultural exchange, particularly through initiatives like Creative Europe.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 31, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2021-06-01

ransomhouse

According to ransomware.live, RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.

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