Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Flightradar24
Affected country: Sweden
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Users of the popular flight-tracking site Flightradar24 are told to change their passwords after the site warns of a data breach. The breach may have compromised the email addresses and hashed passwords for a small subset of Flightradar24 users (those who registered prior to March 16, 2016).