Canadian government spokespersons have reported that the detection of unauthorized access to a server of the statistical service last March 9 caused the preventive shut down for several days of various online services of the Statistics Canada Site and the website of the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency).
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had contacted the main political parties in the country to warn them of potential hostile actions against the British political system, citing accusations of Russian hackers who tried to influence the presidential elections in United States last year.
Wikileaks has begun to publish under the title "Vault 7" material relative to the supposed program of cybersespionage of the CIA, which describes sophisticated software tools and advanced techniques used by the agency to take control among devices such mobile phones, home routers, computers and even smart TVs connected to the Internet.
A hacker has posted on Twitter being the author of the theft and dissemination of data from more than 800,000 online forums user accounts based on vBulletin.