Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: admin.state.mn.us
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: Vigilance
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: United States of America
Description: A hacker calling himself Vigilance hacks a database belonging to the Minnesota state government, and steals about 1,400 email addresses and passwords.