Your assignment is to answer the following six questions for each of the four na

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Your assignment is to answer the following six questions for each of the four named attacks in the outside reading (OPM, Sony Pictures, DDOS Against US Banks, Ukraine Power Grid):

Target. What company, government, organization (or group of them) was the target of the attack?

Attacker. Who was the attacker?

Year. What year did the attack take place?

Consequence. What happened in the attack, what was the attacker trying to accomplish?

Motivation. What was the apparent motivation of the attacker?

Third party victim. Was someone other than the target organization hurt by the attack? (note that employees and shareholders of a company are not generally considered separate from the company)

It is rare that we know for certain who is behind an attack, though in all four of these cases, there is at least speculation about the attackers. Be sure to talk about how much is known about who the attacker is in each case.

Explanation / Answer

OPM

In June 2015 the OPM announced that it had been target for data attacks and a number of 2.5 millions of records had been stolen.

SONY PICTURES:

In November 24,2014 a hacker group leaked a series of personal data i.e. of personal information of Sony pictures employees and their families.

DDOS against US BANKS

The Justice Department has indirectly comment against seven Iranians - allegedly working on behalf of the Iranian government, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of Iran's armed forces - who are suspected of conducting distributed denial-of-service attacks against dozens of American banks as well as attempting to seize control of Bowman Dam outside New York City.

UKRAINE POWER GRID

The December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack took place on 23 December 2015 and is considered to be the first known successful cyber attack on a power grid. Hackers were able to successfully compromise information systems of three energy distribution companies in Ukraine and temporarily disrupt electricity supply to the end consumers.

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