Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tajikistan Domain Registrar
Affected country: Tajikistan
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Mr.Xhat
Actor type: Hobbyist
Actor country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Description: An Iranian hacker called Mr.Xhat hacks the national domain registrar for Tajikistan (domain.tj), and as a consequence, the local primary domains for Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon are redirected to a defaced page.