Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-09-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: EscortReviews.com
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database. The site ran vBulletin 3.8.9, which has known vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to breach the site. It is unknown if the forum was hacked using one of these vulnerabilities or if the site left an unsecured backup of the database online.