Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-01-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Luas
Affected country: Ireland
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The website of the tram operator Luas is taken down after a cyber attack. The author threatens to dump the records of about 3,000 if the ransom of 1 BTC ($3,843 worth) is not paid.