Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Petra News Agency
Affected country: Jordan
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.