Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: EtherDelta
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Message Manipulation,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta is hacked, with many users unknowingly sending their tokens to the hacker instead of the exchange. At least 308 ETH ($266,789) were stolen, as well as a large number of tokens potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.