Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: World Anti-Doping Agency
Affected country: Switzerland
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Anonymous (Poland)
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Poland
Description: A collective associated with the Polish branch of the Anonymous hacks the servers of the World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of Arbitration for Sport (tas-cas.org) and dumps a 412MB file which contains 3,121 unique email accounts along with their passwords.