Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-09-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Guardian's SecureDrop whistleblower submission site
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Guardian's SecureDrop whistleblower submission site is targeted with a phishing page that attempts to harvest the unique "codenames" for sources who submitted information using the service.