Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: LineageOS
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers breach the main infrastructure of the LineageOS Android, causing a full outage. The attackers exploited a high-severity vulnerability in the open source "Salt" management framework that was disclosed to the public on April 30.