Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hacking Team
Affected country: Italy
Industry: Information
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Phineas Fisher
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Italy
Description: Hacking Team, the Italian company behind the infamous surveillance software is hacked. The attacker, allegedly the same author behind the attack on Gamma International (another surveillance software) dumps approximately 400Gb of data by hijacking the Hacking Team Twitter account.