Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-04-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Costa Coffee
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Costa Coffee warns customers in the Cambridge area it may have suffered a security breach and is going to implement a "new format" for users' passwords. According to a statement: contact information from around 0.02 per cent of loyalty card holders was accessed.