Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Staysure
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The travel insurance company Staysure confirms that customer names, addresses and card payment details (including CVV) have been stolen from customers who took out insurance prior to May 2012.  The attack was carried out back in October last year, but the company was slow to react to it.