Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-08-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: FANAP Behnama
Affected country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: GhostSec
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The GhostSec hacktivist group claims to have breached the FANAP Behnama software, Iran regime's very own privacy-invading software, xposing 20GB of data including face recognition and motion detection systems that it says are used by the Iranian government to monitor and track its people.