Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Internal Revenue Service
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Unknown hackers illegitimately access the Get Transcript service of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and obtain the information on more than 100,000 US taxpayers from February to mid-May.