Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Washington Post
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Syrian Electronic Army
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Syrian Arab Republic
Description: The Syrian Electronic Army is back and apparently hijacks for a few minutes the mobile site of the Washington Post, displaying messages critical of the news media and Saudi Arabia. The 30-minute disruption occurs when hackers infiltrated a Washington Post content-delivery partner, Instart Logic.