Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Acer
Affected country: Taiwan (Province of China)
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Acer informs the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers. An unauthorized outside party has taken a year's worth of full credit card data, names and addresses between mid-May 2015 and late-April this year.