Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Information Affairs Ministry in Bahrain
Affected country: Bahrain
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Al-Toufan, or "The Flood"
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The website of the Information Affairs Ministry in Bahrain briefly becomes inaccessible after a cyberattack takes it down, purportedly over the island kingdom's stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.