Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-05-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Edmodo
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: nclay
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A hacker steals millions of user account details from popular education platform Edmodo, and the data is apparently for sale on the so-called dark web. The organization claims to have over 78 million members.