Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Aktif Bank
Affected country: Turkey
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: RedHack
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Turkey
Description: Members of the hacktivist collective RedHack claim to have breached into the systems of Aktif Bank (aktifbank.com.tr), Turkey's largest privately owned investment bank. They also launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the website.