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AFL Fan Website

1 May 2020 · National · Technology
Data Breach HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

Independent threat intelligence teams flagged a major unencrypted Elasticsearch database container belonging to a prominent independent AFL fan forum, revealing that millions of localized user accounts and password strings were exposed to clear-web scraping.

Incident details

Organisation
AFL Fan Website
Date
1 May 2020
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Technology
State
National
Records affected
Millions
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

nine.com.au ↗
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