Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Two properties in the city of Lappeenranta
Affected country: Finland
Industry: Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service,Physical Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution in at least two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings.