Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-08-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Carphone Warehouse Affiliates
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The personal details of up to 2.4 million customers may have been accessed after a division of Carphone Warehouse was hit by a cyberÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â 'ÃÆÃ'ÃÂ¢Ã¢'Â¬ÃÂ ''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â ''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ ''ÃÆÃ''ÃÆ'Ã'ÃÂ attack. It also appears that a smokescreen DDoS attack was utilised to hide the attack.