Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: EasyJet
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: EasyJet admits that a "highly sophisticated cyber-attack" has affected approximately nine million customers. Email addresses and travel details have also been stolen and 2,208 customers also had their credit and debit card details "accessed". The attack was discovered in January.