Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
CWT
Hack or exploit on Aug 1, 2020 · Ransomware
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$4.5M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#487
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
CWT, the fifth largest travel company in the United States, agreed to pay $4.5 million worth of bitcoin to hackers who hijacked its computer systems.
Details
- Date
- Aug 1, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Ransomware
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "CWT hack, Aug 1, 2020: $4.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht29dcd3d926/ (data as of 2026-10-31).