Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-03-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cox Communications
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Cox Communications investigates a possible data breach after alleged names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information relating to some 40,000 employees is currently advertised on The Real Deal Market, a marketplace specialising in stolen data.