Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Affected country: Saudi Arabia
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Yemen Cyber Army
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Yemen
Description: Yemen Cyber Army defaces the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (services.mofa.gov.sa) and leaks plain-text login credentials of Saudi officials, conversations between embassies along with Embassies VSAT Communications. They also release, a few days after, some records of Saudi VISA Database, threatening to release 1M more. There is evidence that the Yemen Cyber Army is in fact a front for Iranian hackers.