Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: Stewart County, TN
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: CyberCaliphate
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: CyberCaliphate, a pro-IS group takes control of the Twitter accounts of the Albuquerque Journal, and CBS affiliate WBOC. The attackers also took over WBOC's website. The hackers used the intrusions to post sensitive documents stolen from government servers in Stewart County, TN.