Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-10-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Santander
Affected country: Spain
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: PagoFX, Santander's international money transfer startup, has been hacked and its database schemas, infrastructure docs, digital risk assessments, customer security checsk, and Salesforce training material have reportedly been put up for sale on an underground hacking forum. Santander has downplayed the incident and stated that the leak is mostly sample source code.