Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-01-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: German politicians
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Protest
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: In what is immediately called "Hacker-Angriff" (Hacker Attack), someone publishes the personal details of hundreds of German politicians, artists and local YouTube celebrities. Few days later a 20-year-old German confesses to be the author of the attack.