Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-02-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Aperio
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Aperio informs of a data breach that occurred when two employees' email accounts were compromised by successful phishing attacks that resulted in auto-forwarding email from those accounts to two external accounts.