{"id":547786,"date":"2026-03-27T04:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:42:18","slug":"elixia-gym-owners-sats-group-hit-in-cyber-attack-yle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547786\/","title":{"rendered":"Elixia gym owners SATS Group hit in cyber attack | Yle News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-5vja16 kEtdKx kmuxyA yle__article__paragraph\">So far there are no indications that a large amount of data about members was compromised, but the firm said the situation is more extensive than initially thought.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A row of light green stationary exercise bicycles.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/39-141261567978a68c7d76.jpeg\" class=\"aw-1l9m598 hKVVvP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Open image viewer<\/p>\n<p>File photo of an Elixia gym in Helsinki. Image: Sasha Silvala \/ Yle<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">The SATS Group, which operates the Elixia gym chain in Finland, has announced that it was targeted in a data security breach on 14 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">The firm said it reported the incident to authorities and is investigating the situation with the help of cybersecurity experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">However, the situation was more extensive than initially thought, according to SATS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">But at least so far, it said there are no indications that extensive data about its members was compromised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">&#8220;To date there are no indications that the company&#8217;s membership system is part of the incident,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">SATS Group owns a number of fitness chains, including SATS, Elixia, Fresh Fitness, SATS Yoga and Balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aw-1gybjub aw-1p7kakr kEtdKx cEmitX yle__article__paragraph\">SATS Group has more than 270 fitness centres across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, according to the firm. It has around 10,000 employees and more than 730,000 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far there are no indications that a large amount of data about members was compromised, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-547786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}