Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-07-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Wattpad
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: ShinyHunters
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An allegedly stolen Wattpad database containing 270 million records is being sold in private sales for over $100,000 and offered for free on hacker forums.