Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: US Federal Court System
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Several websites of the US federal court system, including the ones of the United States Courts (uscourts.gov) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (pacer.gov), are taken down by a DDOS attack.