Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Flight Centre Travel Group
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: MrNervous
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A hacker who goes by the handle MrNervous or WhiteHatMrNervous tries to blackmail the Flight Centre Travel Group and dumps the information of 2,798 users including cleartext passwords.