Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-11-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Brazilian Army
Affected country: Brazil
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Brazilian Army's servers are hacked, resulting in personal details (National Insurance Numbers and passwords) of about 7,000 officers getting leaked. The attack appears to have been prompted as retaliation against the supposedly inappropriate conduct of an Army team during a "capture the flag" cybersecurity competition at the government's Center for Cyber Defence.