Hacker group claims to have infiltrated Novo Nordisk for two months, Danish YouTuber fined for shots video, and more news from Denmark on Wednesday.
Hacker group ‘infiltrated Novo Nordisk for two months’
The cyber extortion group FulcrumSec has come forward claiming to have hacked into the IT system at Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk’s systems over a two month period and stolen 1TB of data.
The group has gone public after Novo Nordisk refused to pay a ransom of $25 million, or DKK 160 million.
According to the group, the data includes confidential information about released and unreleased drugs as well as information about employees, doctors and patients.
Reuters has reported that FulcrumSec is now considering selling some of the material, although the news agency says it has not been able to verify the authenticity of the data that the group has published on its website.
Novo Nordisk told Denmark’s Finans newspaper that it was “aware of the claim that data that was allegedly copied externally without permission from our systems has been published online”. –
Danish vocabulary: a ransom – a ransom
Swedish group applies to build nuclear power station 23km from Copenhagen
A Swedish consortium has applied to build a new nuclear power station at Barsebäck north of Malmö, potentially reigniting the long conflict between Denmark and Sweden over the latter’s decision to site a nuclear power station just 23km from the Danish capital.
The Nordic Baseload Power consortium has applied to build a 2500 MW power station at the Barsebäck site, which is claims should begin generating before 2035, if it receives the necessary permissions by 2029.
When the first two Barsebäck generators were built in the 1970s, there were major protests by Danish anti-nuclear campaigners.
Danish vocabulary: nuclear reactors – nuclear power stations
Danish YouTuber fined for shots video
The Danish YouTuber Martin Guldborg has been ordered to pay a fine of 120,000 kroner after a court in Esbjerg found him guilty of breaking Denmark’s marketing law with a video in which he drank 100 shots of vodka, gin and absinthe.
The video, which ended with Guldborg becoming severely drunk and vomiting has received 600,000 views on YouTube since it was uploaded in 2022. He was also found guilty of a similar video where he drank 50 cans of energy drink.
The court found that the video constituted indirect marketing to children and young people.
Guldborg told DR that the decision was “fine”.
“Rules are rules,” he said in a written statement. “I clearly hadn’t read up on them enough at the time when the video was produced.”
He said he would leave it up to his lawyer whether he would pay the fine or appeal it.
Danish vocabulary: drunk – drunk/inebriated
Convicted terrorist stripped of Danish citizenship dies in prison
Said Mansour, who was ordered to be deported from Denmark in 2016 after being stripped of his Danish citizenship, has died in prison in Morocco.
The man, who has been referred to as “the bookseller from Brønshøj”, was in 2007 the first person in Denmark to be found guilty of offenses under Denmark’s new terror laws after he was found guilty of promoting Islamic terrorism and holy war.
According to the then Minister of Immigration Inger Støjberg (V), Morocco had given Denmark a guarantee for his safety in 2019. She called him “perhaps one of the world’s most fanatical Islamists”.
He was jailed when he arrived in Morocco and was in 2020 sentenced to death for his alleged role in an attack in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, where 45 people lost their lives in 2003.
The cause of his death in prison has not been revealed.
Danish vocabulary: imprisoned – jailed
