The company Axis, which among other things develops network cameras for surveillance, discovered the attack on Monday.

- Our systems warned that there was unusual activity.

Our IT department then discovered that it was a cyber attack and that it was unauthorized people who were inside the system, says Björn Hallerborn, communications manager at Axis.

The attack took place on the night of Sunday 20 February.

The next morning, when the attack was discovered, the company shut down all external access to their system.

- There are still some services that are not running, but the most important services have been running again for a few days now.

It has been an impact for a week, says Björn Hallerborn to SVT Nyheter Skåne.

Sensitive data in danger

It was the company's own IT system with information about, among other things, customers, administration, upgrades and video management systems that was affected by the attack.

- The biggest damage for us was the decision to shut down all our services connected to the internet.

Exactly what was affected in our systems, however, we are investigating and there is no information that we go out with externally.

According to Björn Hallerborn, the customers 'cameras or video data were not affected by the hacker attack, as Axis does not have access to the customers' video data.

But the company still takes what has happened very seriously.

- It is very serious that unauthorized people enter our systems.

If we had not shut down, they could have come across sensitive data about our customers and about the company's innovation and development.

"Human Factor"

How did the hackers get in?

- It is a combination of different factors.

They have used the human factor and various technical methods and all in all have managed to get past the security systems we have, says Björn Hallerborn.

Axis Communications has never before been subjected to such a serious hacker attack.

- No never.

We are occasionally subjected to attempts.

This is the most serious thing that has happened.

Sees no war connection

Lundaföretaget's video surveillance system was installed in 2007 in Moscow's subways.

Is there a connection between the attack and the war in Ukraine?

- We do not make such a connection.

Axis is now investigating the causes of the cyber attack and is also trying to identify possible shortcomings in the company's system.

- What is clear is that there is never any way as a company to be completely protected against attacks if you want to use internet services.

What we can do is make it as difficult as possible for an attacker to get in.

We are reviewing that now, says the company's communications manager Björn Hallerborn.