The systems of International online currency exchange broker Pepperstone suffered a data breach incident after a third-party vendor was attacked by malware in July 2020 .
The breach compromised the personal details of its customers including names, contact details, dates of birth and other information.
Pepperstone immediately detected the breach and secured its systems and notified the impacted customers.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/pepperstone
"id": "pep201318422",
"linkid": "pepperstone",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2020",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Financial Services',
'name': 'Pepperstone',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Malware',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'contact details',
'dates of birth',
'other information'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information']},
'date_detected': 'July 2020',
'description': 'The systems of International online currency exchange broker '
'Pepperstone suffered a data breach incident after a '
'third-party vendor was attacked by malware in July 2020.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'contact details',
'dates of birth',
'other information']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified the impacted customers',
'remediation_measures': 'Secured its systems'},
'title': 'Pepperstone Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}