Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: Banque Catonale de Geneve
Affected country: Switzerland
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Rex Mundi
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: France
Description: The infamous Hacking Group Rex Mundi is active also in the new year, and after blackmailing Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE), dumps details of about 30,000 bank's customers, after the bank rejects the request to pay a ransom of EUR10,000 ($12,000).