Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-12-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: PakWheels
Affected country: Pakistan
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: PakWheels, a famous automotive website in Pakistan reveals that their server was breached by an unknown third party exposing personal data of potentially 674,775 registered users. The breach happened in October 2016 exploiting a known vulnerability in the outdated vBulletin forum software.