Cybersecurity incident — 2014-07-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: CNET
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: W0rm
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation

A Russian hacker group calling itself W0rm claims to have penetrated CNET's website stealing a database of registered reader data (1 million users). Hackers demand 1 bitcoin.