Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-06-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Monsanto
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Monsanto admits that credit card data along with names, addresses and US taxation information for 1300 customers and employees was compromised after hackers broke into its servers in March.