Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-02-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
Affected country: Taiwan (Province of China)
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: 15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.