Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Forrester Research
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Forrester, one of the world's leading market research and investment advisory firms, admits that a security breach took place during the past week. An unidentified attacker (or attackers) has gained access to the infrastructure hosting its website stealing site credentials and proprietary research.