Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-02-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Linux Mint Distribution
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Peace
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.