Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-05-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: Debenhams
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Malware infects the backend systems used by British high street chain Debenhams, and steals 26,000 people's personal information in the process. The hack happened after compromising the systems at Ecomnova, the firm that runs the Debenhams Flowers business, for more than six weeks.