Cybersecurity incident — 2017-08-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Enigma Blockchain Project
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Another attack exploiting an Initial Coin Offering. As much as $500,000 in ether is stolen from supporters of the Enigma blockchain project following a security compromise. Attackers are able to take control of the project's website domain, one of the administrator accounts on its Slack channel and its mailing lists.