Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-09-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Freenode
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: Popular IRC network Freenode suffers a security breach and asks users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised.