Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-01-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Capital Economics
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: During a routine Darkweb monitoring, researchers from Cyble found a leak of 500K+ records of C-level people from Capital Economics on a Russian-speaking forum.