Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-09-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: 2K
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: American video game publisher 2K confirms that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers with fake support tickets pushing malware via embedded links, after an unauthorized third party illegally accessed the credentials of one of the vendors to the help desk platform.