An international cybercriminals gang had accessed Citrix servers for about six months.
The hackers were able to steal business documents, names, social security numbers, and financial information.
The company notified all the impacted customers and secured their servers from any such future attack.
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/category/data-breach/page/48
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/citrix
"id": "cit11910222",
"linkid": "citrix",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "05/2019",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Technology',
'name': 'Citrix',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Server Access',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'social security '
'numbers'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['business documents',
'names',
'social security numbers',
'financial information']},
'description': 'An international cybercriminals gang accessed Citrix servers '
'for about six months.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['business documents',
'names',
'social security numbers',
'financial information'],
'systems_affected': ['Citrix Servers']},
'motivation': 'Data Theft',
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified impacted customers',
'containment_measures': 'Secured servers from future attacks'},
'threat_actor': 'International Cybercriminals Gang',
'title': 'Citrix Server Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}