Mattias Lindholm, a spokesman for the Swedish Coast Guard, told The New York Times that the C-Lion1 Finland-Germany fiber line was damaged off the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. He provided no details on when the damage occurred or what caused it.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden said that his government took "all reports of possible damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea very seriously." 

Finnish networking company Cinia, which operates the high-speed fiber line, told Bloomberg that the connection between Finland and Germany remains uninterrupted. However, they noted there appears to be a "scratch" on the line but provided no further details. 

What is clear is that the cable was not completely severed, unlike previous incidents in recent years.

Between November and January, there were three incidents of damaged undersea cables in the Baltic Sea - from data cables to power cables...