Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Malaysia Airlines
Affected country: Malaysia
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Lizard Squad
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Lizard Squad seizes the website of Malaysia Airlines (malaysiaairlines.com) and redirects the users towards an external page with: a tuxedo-wearing lizard, a reference to the loss of the MH370 flight, and eventually some phrases praising ISIS.