Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-07-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ashley Madison
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: The Impact Team
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Ashley Madison, an online dating website that specifically targets people looking to have an affair, is hacked by a group that calls itself Impact Team. The authors of the attack threaten to release the entire database of 37 million users.