Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-03-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hanford Site
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Guangdong State Security Department (GSSD) (APT3)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Hackers conducted a combination of financially motivated and espionage-driven hacking operations against hundreds of companies, organizations, and research firms based in the United States and other countries, stealing terabytes of information. One of these targets was the Hanford Site, a Department of Energy nuclear waste complex. The two hackers, Li Xiayou and Dong Jiazhi, allegedly carried out their activities with the help of China's Ministry of State Security.