Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: Sage Software
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A data breach at Sage Software may have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses. The breach was caused by "unauthorised access" by someone using an "internal" company computer login. The alleged author of the attack, a 32 year-old Sage employee was arrested at Heathrow airport.