Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Illinois State Board of Elections
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: New details emerge about the alleged hacks before the 2016 elections. Ken Menzel, general counsel of the State Board of Elections, reveals that nearly 90,000 records containing personal information were accessed by Russian hackers, with 90 percent of those records containing some kind of personal information.