Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-01-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Vale
Affected country: Brazil
Industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Brazilian multinational mining company Vale is hacked and confidential internal documents are leaked (about 40 thousand files in a 500 MB folder).