Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: AOL Mail
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: AOL Mail is hacked and several users report their accounts are being used to send spam to others. The potential impact affects 50 million and all users are urged to change their passwords.