Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux distribution
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An unknown hacker temporarily takes control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embed malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. The malicious code fails to trigger properly and users' remain safe.