Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-12-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Kagoya
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.