Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of the Quran in 2023.
According to officials in Stockholm, the cyberattack was carried out by Iran´s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which hacked an SMS service and sent "some 15,000 text messages in Swedish" over the string of public burnings of the Quran that took place over several months in the summer of 2023.
Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said a preliminary investigation by Sweden´s SAPO domestic security agency showed "it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service."
The Swedish company was not named. There was no immediate comment from Iranian authorities on the accusations from Sweden.
In August 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people in Sweden had received text messages in Swedish calling for revenge against people who were burning the Quran.
Also in 2023, an Iraqi citizen living in Sweden set a copy of the Quran alight in front of the capital's largest mosque.
Sweden Says Iran was Behind Thousands of Text Messages Calling for Revenge over Quran Burnings
A Swedish man of Iraqi descent burns a copy of the Quran in front of a mosque in Stockholm. (AFP)
Sweden Says Iran was Behind Thousands of Text Messages Calling for Revenge over Quran Burnings
A Swedish man of Iraqi descent burns a copy of the Quran in front of a mosque in Stockholm. (AFP)
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