Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-11-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hetzner
Affected country: South Africa
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A key database operated by large South African data centre operator and website hosting service provider Hetzner is compromised, and the company advises clients to change their passwords immediately. Compromised data includes customer and bank account details.