Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-01-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: John Holdren
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Fearz
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: United States of America
Description: Crackas With Attitude (CWA) claims to have hacked the home telephone and email account of President Barack Obama's senior advisor on science and technology John Holdren. One of the group members claims that the person who broke into Holdren's account was a hacker called Fearz, who identifies as an ex-member of CWA.