Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-11-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Snake
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: German security officials detected a cyberattack, believed to be by the Russian group Snake, on the email accounts of German celebrities, lawmakers, military officials, and staff of several German embassies. As a result of the hack, the personal details of the victims were leaked online by the hackers. One of the victimis is German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.