On Tuesday evening, the Bank ID was subjected to an overload attack and the app was down for about an hour.

Many authorities and companies use exclusively Bank IDs as digital identification for their services, something that can do that, according to Johan Turell.

- It is important to have a little foresight as a private person, but it is also the case that those who have online services based on Bank ID must have at least one more service, says Johan Turell, senior analyst at the Department of Cyber ​​Security at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency , MSB.