Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-09-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Affected country: China
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: National Security Agency
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: United States of America
Description: China denounces the U.S. Embassy in Beijing following a joint report from two of the country's most prominent cyber authorities (China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) and the company 360) accusing the National Security Agency of stealing "sensitive information" from Chinese institutions, in particular the Northwestern Polytechnical University.