Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-06-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Metropolitan Companies, Inc.
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: About 8,500 notification letters are sent out to individuals employed by, or who submitted an application to, The Metropolitan Companies, Inc., alerting them that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to their personal information.