Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nexus Mods
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The popular game modification site Nexus Mods announces a security incident: an unauthorized actor hacked their services on November 8th, 2019 through an exploit in their legacy codebase.