Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-07-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: AFC Kredieten
Affected country: Belgium
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Rex Mundi
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: France
Description: Hacker collective Rex Mundi claims to have stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, and threatens to publish every loan applicant record in its possession if the company does not pay up a ransom. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi publishes some personal accounts and leaves a banner notification on the AFC Kredieten website.