Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-08-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cardpool
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: A Russian hacker sells on a top-tier underground forum close to 900,000 gift cards with a total value estimated at $38 million. The cards are allegedly stolen from Cardpool.com.