Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-04-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: TaskRabbit
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: TaskRabbit, a web-based service owned by IKEA that connects freelance handymen with clients in various local US markets, emails customers admitting it suffered a security breach. The company takes down its app and website while investigating the incident.