Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-11-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Cash Converters
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Undetermined
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Cash Converters warns customers about a data breach on its website. The company says customer usernames, passwords and addresses have potentially been accessed by a third party. The breach happened on the company's old UK website, which was replaced in September 2017.