Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-12-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Japanese Prime Minister
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.