Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-10-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Polecat
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: U.K. analytics firm, Polecat,  left 30TB of data and billions of records exposed on an elasticsearch server that was not secured. As a result, a Meow attack wiped half the data on the server.