Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-04-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: ADP
Affected country: United States of America
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: Identity thieves steal tax and salary data from payroll giant ADP by registering accounts in the names of employees at more than a dozen customer firms. ADP says the incidents occurred because the victim companies all mistakenly published sensitive ADP account information online.