Cybersecurity incident — 2015-08-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Fred's Inc.
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Undetermined
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Fred's Inc. confirms that an unauthorized person gained access to two servers that process payment card data placing a malicious software capable of copying the payment card data.