Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Mailchimp
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers compromise the Mailchimp database and manage to send out emails containing malicious links to subscribers of various different companies.