Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-11-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Verticalscope
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: For the second time since June 2016, hackers compromise Verticalscope.com, a Canadian company that manages hundreds of popular Web discussion forums totaling more than 45 million user accounts, and sell the stolen account in the black market.