Estonia, which was in the midst of a diplomatic dispute with Russia, blamed Moscow for the attacks, which it denied.A year later, Georgia suffered similar attacks which crippled its official presidential website and the main broadcast networks during the South Ossetia war. The attack was attributed to Russian nationalists.In July 2009, a dozen US government websites, including those of the White House, Pentagon and State Department, were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack which also struck sites in South Korea.South Korea was again the victim of a cyberattack in March 2013 amid tensions with North Korea. US intelligence officials said the release was part of a Russian plot to aid the eventual election victor Donald Trump.In March, the group released a large number of files and computer code from the CIA's top-secret hacking operations, showing how the agency exploits vulnerabilities in popular computer and networking hardware and software to gather intelligence.A similar election attack targeted the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron barely 24 hours before the final round of voting in April, when thousands of documents from his En Marche! (On the Move!) movement were dumped online.The campaign denounced the "massive and coordinated hacking attack," calling it an attempt at "democratic destabilisation, like that seen during the last presidential campaign in the United States.

Source: Economic Times May 13, 2017 15:56 UTC