Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-07-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: Canadian government
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers from the Anonymous collective say they breached supposedly secure Canadian government computers and accessed high-level, classified national security documents as retaliation for last week's fatal shooting by the RCMP of a protester in British Columbia. To support their claim, they publish a document that appears to be legitimate Treasury Board of Canada notes on federal cabinet funding to fix flaws in the foreign stations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).