Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-09-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Mega.nz
Affected country: New Zealand
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz file sharing service is compromised with malicious code that steals usernames and passwords, but also private keys for cryptocurrency accounts.