Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Politifact
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website devoted to checking the factual accuracy of US politicians' words, appears to have been hacked so that it secretly mines cryptocurrency in visitors' browsers via CoinHive.