Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-10-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: LoopPay
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) (APT19)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: The New York Times reveals that months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean electronics giant, was the target of a sophisticated attack by a group known as the Codoso Group.