Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: GCKey
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. The hackers targeted GCKey, a service that is used by some 30 federal departments, with credential stuffing.