Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-09-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The British government is probing a hack carried out on computer systems belonging to the British Foreign Ministry, which resulted in hundreds of files exposing its propaganda operations in Syria being stolen.