Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: We Heart It
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: We Heart It, an image-sharing site, informs users their personal data may have been compromised. The breach, involving 8 million users, took place a few years ago and includes email addresses, usernames and encrypted passwords for We Heart It accounts created between 2008 and November 2013.