Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nissan Canada Finance
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Nissan Canada's vehicle-financing wing has been hacked, putting personal information of as many as 1.13 million customers at risk. The exposed data includes at least customer names, addresses, vehicle makes and models, vehicle identification numbers (VINs), credit scores, loan amounts and monthly payment figures.