Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: The National Bank of Blacksburg
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Brian Krebs reveals that hackers used phishing emails to break into The National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 million total. The breaches happened in May 2016 and January 2017.