Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Official website of Rep. Jim McDermott
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: More than a dozen House Democrats' official websites are taken down, after Democrats ended an overnight sit-in to press for a vote on gun control legislation. The outage is affecting the congressional sites of Reps. Earl Blumenauer, John Carney, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Tammy Duckworth, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Marcy Kaptur, William Keating, John Larson, Jim McDermott, Richard Neal, Ed Perlmutter, Jackie Speier and Filemon Vela.