Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-04-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: U.S Department of State
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Threat actors that are suspected to be from Russia have compromised unclassified White House networks using access from compromised networks at the State Department. The hack was first discovered in October 2014.