Incident analysis
Hornavan Hotell was listed by Deadlock ransomware, a group with 109 victims recorded in this database. The listing appeared on the group's leak site on June 15, 2026.
Hornavan Hotell is based in Sweden and operates in the Hospitality and Tourism sector. Sweden ranks #20 worldwide for ransomware disclosures, with 160 victims in this database.
Sector context. Organisations in this sector hold valuable data and operational systems that ransomware groups seek to exploit for financial gain through encryption and data exfiltration.
Deadlock typically follows a double extortion model: data is exfiltrated from the victim's systems before files are encrypted, so the victim faces two demands at once — pay to restore access, and pay to keep stolen data unpublished. The leak site, where this listing appeared, is the lever for the second demand.