Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-01-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: ATLAS (online game)
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The online servers of the newly launched ATLAS game suffer some "technical difficulties" after players hack a STEAM admin account and spam fellow players for hours with "Subscribe to PewDiePie" messages.