Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-04-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: Reyes & Barsoum L.L.P.
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Berkshire Hathaway Homestate; Cypress Insurance; Zenith Insurance
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A group of California workers claim in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally broke into their lawyers' database and stole over 32,000 confidential workers comp files.