Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-01-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Raychat
Affected country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Raychat, a popular Iranian business and social messenger, exposes its entire database (267M+ accounts w/ names, emails, passwords, metadata, encrypted chats etc.), which is then destroyed by a bot attack.