US EditionSweden Investigates Strava Data Leak That Exposed Prime Minister and Royals
- Bodyguards for Sweden's intelligence service Säpo have used an exercise app that shared sensitive location data of top politicians, including Sweden's Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, as reported by Dagens Nyheter.
- The Strava app publicly shares jogging routes, revealing personal information like home location and holiday spots.
- Security expert Johan Wiktorin warned that the exposed information could assist terrorist groups in planning attacks.
- Carolina Björnsdotter Paasikivi, Säpo's head of security, stated, 'The information revealed in this investigation is something we take very seriously,' according to Dagens Nyheter.
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Careless security guards for Swedish political figures, primarily Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, but also members of the royal family, inadvertently leaked highly classified data about the movements and whereabouts of the protected individuals. They shared it through a fitness app that allows users to record and analyze activities such as jogging, cycling, and swimming.
Swedish PM’s bodyguards accidentally reveal location on Strava
The Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards inadvertently revealed their boss’s location and private address by uploading their workouts to the fitness app Strava. Members of Ulf Kristersson’s security detail kept their Strava profiles open, meaning that the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter could track his movements, including going for a run with the leaders of Norway and Finland in the Norwegian town of Bodø. Workouts seem to be a key opsec failur…
For several years, it has been possible to map the secret locations of Swedish King Carl Gustav through his bodyguards' running app. This is revealed by the Swedish media Dagens Nyheter.
They reportedly published private information 35 times. ...
An analysis of over 1,400 training activities from seven bodyguards revealed a wealth of information about the Swedish prime minister and other politicians, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter discovered. This isn't the first Strava scandal.
The bodyguards of Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson have accidentally made movement data publicly available that allow conclusions to be drawn about the politician's whereabouts.
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