Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-03-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Statistics Canada
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Canadian government confirms that the Statistics Canada website is hacked and taken offline for over two days. In the aftermath of the cyberattack parts of the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) site is also reportedly taken offline by authorities as a precaution.