Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-01-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Sunderland City Council
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts,External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Sunderland City Council reveals to have been hit with phishing and spoofing emails, and at least one Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, back in November.