Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: LinkedIn
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A new lawsuit reveals that data thieves used a massive botnet against LinkedIn to steal members' personal information via information scraping by fake profiles.