Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: swimming.org.au
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Swimming.org.au, the Swimming Australia's website is hit by a DDoS attack in the wake of Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton's comments about his Chinese competitor Sun Yang being a drug cheat.