Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-01-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: The Dark Overlord
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Description: The Dark Overlord hacks the computers of an Indiana-based cancer agency and asks for a large payment of 50 Bitcoin ($44,800) not to release the data. Initially the attack seemed to have been caused by ransomware.