Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-07-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Amazon
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: 0x2Taylor
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: 0x2Taylor claims to have breached the servers of Amazon, and leaks the login credentials of 80,000 Kindle users. The company denies the breach and declares the data was not stolen from its servers and is not legitimate.