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Danish wind power giant targeted in cyber attack

Wind turbine maker Vestas said it is still trying to clarify the consequences of a cyber attack which targeted the company late last week.

Published: 22 November 2021 13:06 CET
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas is counting the cost of a recent cyber attack.
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas is counting the cost of a recent cyber attack. File photo: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix

Investigations so far suggest that “data has been compromised”, Vestas said in a notice to the stock exchange.

“Initial results of the company’s investigations indicate that the incident has affected parts of Vestas’ internal IT infrastructure and that data has been compromised,” the company wrote.

“Work and investigation into the situation is ongoing,” it added.

No evidence has so far been found of a cyber security attack of a nature which could threaten Vestas’ customers or supply chains, it also noted.

The company showed a 1.9 percent loss of value on the Danish stock exchange C25 as of 10:20am on Monday.

Previous cyber attacks have proved costly for Danish companies, with Demant losing half a billion kroner and Maersk suffering a loss of almost two billion kroner.

Vestas currently has almost 30,000 people in various parts of the world on its payroll, including a large number in Denmark. The company’s turnover in 2020 was 14.8 billion euros.

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Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

Denmark’s government wants authorities to be able to move children out of families in which parents are gang members and is likely to formalise the measure in parliament.

Published: 9 April 2024 13:38 CEST
Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

The justice spokesperson with senior coalition partner the Social Democrats, Bjørn Brandenborg, told regional media TV2 Fyn that he wants authorities to have the power to remove children from their families in certain circumstances where the parents are gang members.

Brandenborg’s comments came on Monday, after Odense Municipality said it had spent 226 million kroner since 2009 on social services for eight specific families with gang connections.

“There is simply a need for us to give the authorities full backing and power to forcibly remove children early so we break the food chain and the children don’t become part of gang circles,” he said.

The measure will be voted on in parliament “within a few weeks”, he said.

An earlier agreement on anti-gang crime measures, which was announced by the government last November, includes provisions for measures of this nature, Brandenborg later confirmed to newswire Ritzau.

“Information [confirming] that close family members of a child or young person have been convicted for gang crime must be included as a significant and element in the municipality’s assessment” of whether an intervention is justified, the agreement states according to Ritzau.

The relevant part of November’s political agreement is expected to be voted on in parliament this month.

READ ALSO: Denmark cracks down on gang crime with extensive new agreement

Last year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told political media Altinget that family relations to a gang member could be a parameter used by authorities when assessing whether a child should be forcibly removed from parents.

In the May 2023 interview, Hummelgaard called the measure a “hard and far-reaching measure”.

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