Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-01-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A group claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective defaces the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission website (humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au) with a nonsensical message about its social network AnonPlus.