Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tesla
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: RIPPRGANG; Autismsquad
Actor type: Hobbyist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Tesla Motors Inc.'s Twitter feed and its media-relations e-mail account are hijacked by a group dubbed RIPPRGANG. The hackers are able to post messages to the company's more than 564,000 followers. Nearly in contemporary the homepage is redirected to an external domain by an online group called Autismsquad.