Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: US Department of Justice
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The Department of Justice has revealed that hackers have accessed its networks as a result of the SolarWinds hack. The attackers breached the Department's Office 365 system and read its emails.