Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-10-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: British Columbia Wildfire Management Branch
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Roughly 15,000 applicant names, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and job evaluation details held on a database belonging to BC Wildfire Management Branch are accessed by an Estonian hacker.