Cybersecurity incident — 2020-03-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: General Electric (GE) via Canon Business Process Services
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

General Electric (GE) discloses that personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries, was exposed in a security incident experienced by one of GE's service providers, Canon Business Process Services. One of their employees' email accounts was breached by an unauthorized party in February.