Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-03-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ontario Ministry of Education
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Ontario's Ministry of Education confirms it is investigating the hack of 5,000 emails, stolen via an unauthorized access to its website (edu.gov.on.ca) and then published online.