Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-11-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Comcast
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Orion
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Comcast resets 200k cleartext passwords, after a hacker known as Orion claims to have stolen the database and puts it on sale on the dark web. Nearly 590,000 users could have been compromised.