Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-02-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Sacramento Bee
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Sacramento Bee deletes two databases hosted by a third party after a ransomware attack exposed the voter records of 19.5 million California voters and 53,000 current and former subscribers to the newspaper.