Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: Aviva
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of Network Infrastructure,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: According to the security group RedLock, a group of hackers managed to breach Amazon Web Services belonging to two companies on the Amazon Cloud: Aviva and Gemalto. The breach was due to poor password policy and aimed to use the resources to mine cryptocurrency.