Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: New York City Government
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Almost all government agencies in New York City are unable to send or receive messages for nearly a week as a consequence of a DDoS attack. A further investigation reveals that the attack may have originated from Russia.