Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-07-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Armscor (armscor.co.za)
Affected country: South Africa
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: In the name of OpAfrica, hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective hack Armscor, a Pretoria based arms procurement agency, and leak 63 MB data in HTML files that include invoices numbers, order numbers, invoice amount and other data from Airbus, Thales group, Rolls Royce, EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), and Denel.