Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-09-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: NewsNow
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Online news aggregation service NewsNow admits that it has suffered a security breach and an encrypted version of the passwords may have been accessed.