Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-08-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Mastercard Priceless Specials loyalty program
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Mastercard discloses a data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities involving customer data from the company's Priceless Specials loyalty program. Two files with the details of the loyalty program members are leaked on the Internet.