Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-10-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Apple iCloud
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government's national firewall system, reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle attack on users of Apple's iCloud service within the country.