Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Bitfinex
Affected country: China
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Bitfinex is forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop DDoS attacks.