Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Finnish Parliament
Affected country: Finland
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) (APT31)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Hackers have compromised the Parliament of Finalnd and accessed to the email accounts of some of its members. The incident occurred in the fall of 2020 around the same time Norway's Parliament was subject to a similar attack. In March 2021, Finnish officials attributed the attack to APT31.