Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-07-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: HotScripts.com
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: uid0
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Someone who goes by the name "uid0" allegedly steals more than 1.4 million passwords, email addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts, and offers to sell the databases on the dark web.