Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-03-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Welsh NHS
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Details of thousands of medical staff of Welsh NHS are stolen from a private contractor's computer server (Landauer). The breach happened in October 2016 and the total number of affected staff is 4,766.