Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-05-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Commercial Bank of Ceylon
Affected country: Sri Lanka
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 Sri Lanka-based Commercial Bank of Ceylon releases a statement admitting that a "hacking attack" on its website resulted in a successful intrusion. However, no customer data has been compromised.