Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: Microsoft
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Wild Neutron
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: According to five former employees, Microsoft Corp's secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking group more than four years ago.