Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-10-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Jaafar al-Hasabi
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The UK Police National Cyber Crime Unit is asked to investigate claims that computers and mobile phones used by exiled Bahraini pro-democracy activists living in the UK are under illegal surveillance. The three named victims are Dr. Saeed Shehabi, Jaafar al-Hasabi and Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali.