Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-02-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts,Exploitation of Sensors
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Christopher Taylor
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Description: A British judge has ruled against extraditing Christopher Taylor, a Wigan man who is alleged to have hacked hundreds of webcams around the globe, to the United States. Taylor was apprehended after it was discovered that he installed malware on a laptop at the Georgia Institute of Technology.