Hackers were able to gain unauthorised access to Ghost by exploiting some bugs in the Salt software that is used for managing the company’s servers. The cybercriminals did not steal any personal or financial information from users. Instead, they were focused on cryptojacking, the process of stealthily mining cryptocurrency (usually privacy coins in the likes of Monero), as related by u.today.
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