Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-02-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: UK Labour Party
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The UK's Labour Party locks down access to membership databases and campaign tools after a number of attempts to access personal data on its systems by "individuals who are not, or are no longer, authorized to do so".