Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Perl Blogs
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Islamic Cyber Resistance
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Description: The Islamic Cyber Resistance (ICR) hacks the official Perl blogs (blogs.perl.org) and dumps 2,924 user account credentials. The official web page is also defaced.