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The CIA has taken credit for helping thwart a terror attack targeting a Taylor Swift concert this month.

Let’s bring you up to speed: Earlier this month, a group linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda plotted a terror attack at Taylor Swift’s Vienna concerts. A 19-year-old Austrian man who pledged allegiance to ISIS planned to target fans outside the venue using knives and homemade explosives. Austrian authorities, acting on CIA intelligence, arrested the man and a co-conspirator. After a search of his home, they found chemicals and devices that indicated they were preparing to carry out the attack.

What the CIA did: At the Intelligence National Security Summit, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen confirmed that their intelligence sharing led to the foiling of the plot. Speaking at the summit, he said, “They were plotting to kill a huge number — tens of thousands of people at this concert, including, I am sure, many Americans — and were quite advanced in this. The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do.” He continued, “I can tell you within my agency, and I’m sure in others, there were people thought that was a really good day for Langley [where the CIA headquarters is located]. And not just the Swifties in my workforce.”

More on the concerts: The three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna were canceled due to the terrorist plot. Local authorities estimated that up to 200,000 people were expected across the three events. Swift had projected nearly “half a million” attendees.

Swift reacts: Roughly two weeks after the cancelations, Taylor Swift said, “Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating. The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows. But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives.”