Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-04-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Great Western Railway
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Great Western Railway reset more than a million customer accounts after discovering hackers had successfully breached a small percentage of them. According to the operator, about 1,000 of its passengers' details have been exposed.