Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-02-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Activision
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Host
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Activision confirms that it suffered a data breach in early December 2022 after hackers gained access to the company's internal systems by tricking an employee with an SMS phishing text. Few days later the threat actors leak some data allegedly stolen from the company.