Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-07-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Plex
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: savaka
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A hacker called savaka hacks the Plex server hosting the forums and the blog. The attacker asks for a ransom of 9.5 BTC to avoid the leak of the data.