Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-02-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: FileSilo.co.uk
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: UK magazine publisher Future's FileSilo website (FileSilo.co.uk) is raided by hackers, who make off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords.