Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: KICKICO
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: KICKICO, an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) project suffers a security breach. Attackers access the private key of the smart contract and as a result, steal more than 70 million KickCoins which is around $7.7 million.