Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: GRU Main Special Center for Special Technologies (Unit 74455) (SANDWORM)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Guccifer 2.0 leaks a fresh batch of documents, memos and passwords, this time from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). They include a spreadsheet of congressional contacts' phone numbers and email addresses, internal memos and what purports to be documents stolen from the computer of Nancy Pelosi.