Cybersecurity incident — 2020-06-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: puebla.gob.mx
Affected country: Mexico
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: m1x
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation

A Russian hacker named m1x breaches a Mexican government web portal (puebla.gob.mx) and three days later once the government refused to pay a ransom, publicly-releases some 14,000 Mexican taxpayer ID numbers.