Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: Sam's Club
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Wholesale retail giant Sam's Club has reset passwords for thousands of customers (14,600 email addresses and plain-text passwords) after their account details were posted online.