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The Swedish DPA found the company violated GDPR Article 32 by failing to implement adequate technical and organisational security measures, specifically lacking proper software installation controls and real-time automated intrusion detection. This case highlights the outsized risk that IT service providers represent — a single vendor's security failures can cascade across hundreds of public-sector clients. 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