Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: CurrentC
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: CurrentC, a phone-based payment system designed to compete with the recently launched Apple Pay, experiences a major data breach, as the email addresses of beta testers and interested potential users are extracted from a database.