Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-03-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: British Telecom
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Internet traffic for 167 important British Telecom customers, including a UK defense contractor that helps deliver the country's nuclear warhead program, are mysteriously diverted to servers in Ukraine before being passed along to their final destination.