Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-10-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cathay Pacific
Affected country: China
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Cathay Pacific announces to have discovered unauthorised access to some of its information system containing passenger data of up to 9.4 million people. The attack started in March and went undetected for some months.