Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-01-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: LiveRamp
Affected country: United States of America
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: Facebook reveals that back in October, hackers commandeered the personal account of a LiveRamp employee and used it to gain access to the company's Business Manager account -- allowing them to run ads using other people's money.