Cybersecurity incident — 2018-10-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Affected country: Switzerland
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation

A threat actor compromised the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in December 2016 and January 2017. Seven of the individuals alleged to be behind this incident, believed to be Russian military intelligence (known as GRU), were indicted by the U.S. Justice Department.