Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: ICANN
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: ICANN, the organisation which oversees the Internet's Domain Name System, reveals to have fallen victim to a hacker attack during which the details (emails and hashed passwords) of users who had created profiles on the organisation's public website were exposed.