Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-04-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Fappening Forum
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.