Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: Unknown government-linked Louisiana database
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: National Security Agency
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: United States of America
Description: A hacker under the pseudonym NSA puts on sale on the dark web a database that purports to hold over a quarter of a million driver licence records compromised from a government-linked databases in Louisiana, United States.