Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-02-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: EOS Cryptocurrency
Affected country: Singapore
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A hacker steals $7.7 million worth of EOS cryptocurrency after one of the 21 maintainers of an EOS blacklist fails to update it. The maintainer is identified in eos.games.