Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: About 55,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (vfw.org) may have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised after an unauthorized party gained access to a VFW web server using a remote access trojan.